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50 Francs - Mines Domaniales de la Sarre type 1920
| Issuer | Mines Domaniales Françaises de la Sarre |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Franc (1919-1935) |
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| Obverse lettering | MINES DOMANIALES FRANCAISES DE LA SARRE CINQUANTE FRANCS DANIEL DUPUIS & G. DUVAL FEC JULES ROBERT SCULP. |
| Reverse description | Central vignette in intaglio presents two seated allegorical female figures — Industry on the left, holding a staff, and Agriculture on the right, holding a sheaf — clasping hands across a circular blank reserve intended for an underprint or seal. The large numeral "50" appears at the top centre, flanked by guilloche borders, with the bilingual exchange text in two columns on either side of the central vignette. Inscriptions "INDUSTRIE" and "AGRICULTURE" appear beneath the respective figures. |
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The Mines Domaniales Françaises de la Sarre was not a bank — it was the French state mining administration installed in the Saar after the Treaty of Versailles handed France control of the territory's coal fields as partial reparation for the destruction of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mines during the war. These notes were scrip, issued to function as a local payment instrument within an occupied industrial zone that had no central bank and a contested monetary identity. The Saar was neither fully French nor German between 1920 and 1935, and its currency arrangements reflected that ambiguity.
Dupuis had died in 1916; the design borrows from his earlier work, adapted posthumously by Duval and engraved by Robert at the Monnaie de Paris.