50 Franken SAAR (French) (1954)
| diameter: | weight: | thickness: | alloy: |
| 27.0 mm | 8.0 g | 2.4 mm | Cu91Al9 |
obverse:
in coin centre Saar Coat of Arms composed into industrial landscape; below: SAARLAND (Saar Region)
reverse:
in the centre large face value: 50; along the top edge: • FÜNFZIG FRANKEN • (in German fifty francs); along the bottom edge year of issue 1954
edge:
plain
issue date:
??? no data
withdrawal date:
6 VII 1959
designer:
Theo Siegle
mint:
La Monnaie de Paris (The Paris Mint), Paris, France (mint mark below letters SA in SAARLAND in the obverse; below letters ND privy mark of mint's director Lucien Bazor - wing)
mintage:
| 1954 | 5 300 000 |
interesting facts:
The coin of 50 Franken from 1954 was a local equivalent of French franc coins [FRG] with the same face value. Both types were circulating side by side.
Saar was a very industrialized region of Europe. Brown coal mined there (hence the mine shaft on the right side of the Coat of Arms in the obverse) was burned in power plants to power iron- and steelworks (hence the smoking chimneys and kilns on the left side of the Coat of Arms).
Typical lanscape of Saar Region in the 30s' of the 20th century.
Photo: V&B archiv
Saar was a very industrialized region of Europe. Brown coal mined there (hence the mine shaft on the right side of the Coat of Arms in the obverse) was burned in power plants to power iron- and steelworks (hence the smoking chimneys and kilns on the left side of the Coat of Arms).
Typical lanscape of Saar Region in the 30s' of the 20th century.
Photo: V&B archiv
last update: 21 XI 2013
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