Centimes Research For A Play In London, Please Help!

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bobby131313 Forum Dad United States 24154 Posts	Posted 09/20/2010 10:21 am Received the following email, I told Samuel that we would certainly help him out, don't make me look bad. Quote: My name is Samuel Wood and I am writing with an enquiry I was hoping you would be able to assist with. I am currently Assistant Director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. If you don't know of RADA they offer the very best training for theatrical practitioners across the globe and I am currently researching for a play called "The Workroom" by a little known French playwright Jean Gromberg. The play itself is set in Paris between 1945-1952 and offers a unique insight into the lives of Parisian Jews during and after the occupation. At the Academy we are meticulous in our research for productions and I was hoping to use your expertise in coinage to answer a few questions we are having trouble to answer. Within the play there is a constant referral to the 1, 5, and 10 Centime coins of the time and as a point of reference we were hoping that you might be able to tell us how much these coins might be worth in today's money? What kind of things could you buy with these coins? Was the coinage altered during the occupation? Establishing the monetary value of these coins for today is essential for correct and truthful representation, many of the audience attending this production will be flying in from Paris and some will in fact be Parisian Jews who were themselves living in Paris during and after the war. If there is anyway you could shed some light on this dilemma we would be eternally grateful, even if you could point us in the right direction it would be a great help. Kindest Regards Samuel Wood Shop CCF Members on eBay. Report this Post to the Staff

Namachieli Pillar of the Community United States 2120 Posts	Posted 09/20/2010 11:33 am well looking at this site http://www.histoire-genealogie.com/...p?article398 " Un franc 1940 vaut environ 0,27 € 2006 Un franc 1950 vaut environ 0,19 € 2006 " in 1940, 1 Franc = 0.27 Euros in 2006, and in 1950, 0.19 Euros respectively. That should be enough to help them get a relative value. Report this Post to the Staff
andyg Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 1314 Posts	Posted 09/20/2010 2:54 pm The 1 and 5 Centimes were no longer used by 1945, the 1 centime in particular was last issued in 1920 and had long before descended into obscurity. 5 centimes were last issued in 1939 Report this Post to the Staff
maudry Pillar of the Community Luxembourg 588 Posts	Posted 09/20/2010 4:03 pm The last 10 centimes and 20 centimes coins have been demonetized in 1947. All 1, 2, 5 and 25 centimes coins have been demonetized in 1942 or before. Their metal was needed in war industry. In 1945 the largest nominal was 10 francs and in 1950 were issued 20 and 50 francs coins. Just to be complete: In 1960 were issued the first coins in francs lourds, 'heavy francs'. They were worth 100 old francs. Until the introduction of the euro many French people were still counting in centimes or old francs. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 09/20/2010 6:55 pm The French suffered from inflation after WWI, and again after WWII. Quoting from Wikipedia: Quote: ...Beginning in 1945 at a rate of 480 francs to the British pound (119.1 to the U.S. dollar), by 1949 the rate was 980 to the pound (350 to the dollar). This was reduced further in 1957 and 1958, reaching 1382.3 to the pound... During WWII there were in effect three different "French francs". The pro-Allies Free French continued to use the same franc that France had used before the war; the pro-Axis Vichy State used the Vichy franc, which was backed by the German reichsmark, and the post-Normandy Allied reoccupation used the Occupation franc. While they may have nominally been equivalent in value, the actual street value of the three currencies would have fluctuated depending on who was perceived as winning the war at the time. With the abolition of the Vichy State and swift advance of the Allies shortly after the Normandy invasion, Vichy money would have become worthless, and deGaulle strongly opposed the widespread use of the Allied occupation franc. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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