50 Francs - Charlotte John the Blind

Luxembourg's postwar silver coinage resumed under Grand Duchess Charlotte after five years of German occupation, during which the Grand Duchy had been formally annexed into the Reich and its currency replaced entirely by the Reichsmark. The 1946 issue marked more than a monetary restoration — the Luxembourg franc itself had been abolished by Nazi decree in 1941, making the reintroduction of national coinage a deliberate act of reasserting sovereignty after liberation.

The series ran nearly two decades with no compositional change, unusual for Western European silver coinage given the widespread debasements of the 1950s and early 1960s. Belgium and France both abandoned .835 silver during this window; Luxembourg held it through 1964.