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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 26501434, member: 4910&quot;]Monaco is a small principality located on the French Riviera and has been independent for a long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>It mints it&#039;s own coins, and by agreement with France, uses French coin denominations and specifications.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1950&#039;s Monaco was in the news for a number of reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins of Monaco in the 1950&#039;s:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_monaco_franc10_1950.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Monaco 10 francs 1950</p><p>Copper-aluminum, 20.0 mm, 3.0 gm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_monaco_franc20_1950.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Monaco 20 francs 1950</p><p>Copper-aluminum, 23.5 mm, 4.0 gm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_monaco_franc50_1950.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Monaco 50 francs 1950</p><p>Copper-aluminum, 27.0 mm, 8.2 gm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_monaco_franc100_1950.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Monaco 100 francs 1950</p><p>Copper-nickel, 30.0 mm, 11.9 gm</p><p><br /></p><p>David Dodge was an American writer in the 1940&#039;s and 1950&#039;s of mystery and adventure novels.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was a San Francisco accountant and in 1941 he started writing four novels about a tough-guy accountant.</p><p>In 1942 he started working for the US Navy as an accountant at the Navy&#039;s San Francisco headquarters.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1945 he, his wife Elva, and daughter Kendal moved to Mexico and then Peru. He wrote three more novels about another tough-guy, this time set in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1950 the United States allowed ordinary Americans to travel to Europe and Dodge&#039;s family moved to the French Riviera where he wrote his most famous novel, &quot;To Catch a Thief&quot;, about a retired jewel thief who comes out of retirement to assist the police in catching another thief.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dodge&#039;s novel mentioned several times the fall in value of the French franc which went from 38 francs to the US dollar in 1939 to 350 francs/dollar in 1950 and how this devaluation affected the characters in the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book was filmed in 1954 on location in France and Monaco and starred Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_tocatchthief_cary_01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Cary Grant flips an unidentified coin</p><p><br /></p><p>Grace Kelly was introduced to Monaco&#039;s Prince Rainier before the filming began. In 1956 they were married.</p><p><br /></p><p>The novel mentioned French police finding a French 10 franc coin in a room but the coin did not make it into the film.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_france_franc10_1951.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>France 10 francs 1951</p><p>Copper-aluminum, 20.0 mm, 3.0 gm</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1956 France minted a smaller 100 franc coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_france_franc100_1956.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>France 100 francs 1956</p><p>Copper-nickel, 24.0 mm, 6.0 gm</p><p><br /></p><p>Monaco minted a similar 100 franc coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_monaco_franc100_1956.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Monaco 100 francs 1956</p><p>Copper-nickel, 24.0 mm, 6.0 gm</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1959 the French franc was worth 500 to the US Dollar and France issued a &quot;new franc&quot; worth 100 &quot;old francs&quot; and Monaco followed:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_monaco_franc01_1960.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Monaco 1 new franc 1960</p><p>Nickel, 24.0 mm, 6.0 gm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_monaco_franc05_1960.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Monaco 5 new francs 1960</p><p>Silver, 29.0 mm, 12.0 gm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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