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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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| Value | 50 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Two allegorical medallions flank the central composition, with personifications of Industry and Agriculture on the left and right respectively. Five smaller medallions occupy the upper centre, presenting Minerva alongside personifications of the four seasons, with two cherubs at the top. The design is executed in an elaborate intaglio style typical of early twentieth-century French engraving. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIESER GELDSCHEIN WIRD, IM SAARGEBIET, DURCH DEN GENERALKASSIERER DES GRUBENVERWALTUNG GEGEN EINEN SCHECK IM GLEICHEN BETRAG AUF DIE BANQUE DE FRANCE UMGEWECHSELT ; IN FRANKREICH WIRD ER VON DER BANQUE DE FRANCE AN DEN KASSEN ALLER IHRER NIEDERLASSUNGEN, GEGEN DEREN EIGENE NOTEN UND FUR DEN GLEICHEN BETRAG, IN TAUSCH GENOM- MEN. LE PRESENT BILLET EST DANS LE TERRITOIRE DE LA SARRE ECHANGEABLE PAR LE CAISSIER GENERAL DES MINES CONTRE UN CHEQUE D`UN EGAL MONTANT SUR LA BANQUE DE FRANCE ; EN FRANCE IL EST ACCEPTE PAR LA BANQUE DE FRANCE AUX GUICHETS DE TOUS SES ETA- BLISSEMENTS EN ECHANGE DE SES PROPRES BILLETS ET POUR LE MEME MONTANT. DANIEL DUPUIS & G. DUVAL FEC JULES ROBERT SCULP. |
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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.