While many medals have been issued by the government of

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over the centuries,

legal tender Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment for any monetary debt. Each jurisdiction determines what is legal tender, but essentially it is anything which when offered ("tendered") in ...

commemorative coinage only began in 1982, with the issue of ten-franc piece commemorating

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. Soon there were other issues, and by the 1990s, there was a profusion of silver coins commemorating many events.

Recent issues

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Cinderella "Cinderella",; french: link=no, Cendrillon; german: link=no, Aschenputtel) or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants throughout the world.Dundes, Alan. Cinderella, a Casebook. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsi ...

- 2002 * 1.50 euro - silver -

Snow White "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is a 19th-century German fairy tale that is today known widely across the Western world. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection '' Grimms' Fairy Tales'' and numbered as T ...

- 2002 * 1.50 euro - silver - Alice in Wonderland - 2003 * 1.50 euro - silver -

Hansel and Gretel "Hansel and Gretel" (; german: Hänsel und Gretel ) is a German fairy tale collected by the German Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in ''Grimm's Fairy Tales'' (KHM 15). It is also known as Little Step Brother and Little Step Sister. Hansel ...

- 2003 * 1.50 euro - silver - Aladdin - 2004 * 1.50 euro - silver -

Peter Pan Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythi ...

- 2004 * 1.50 euro - silver - 60th anniversary of D-Day - 2004 * 10 euro - gold - FIFA centennial - 2004 * 1.50 euro - silver - FIFA centennial - 2004 * 10 euro - gold - 150th anniversary of

Bordeaux wines Bordeaux wine ( oc, vin de Bordèu, french: vin de Bordeaux) is produced in the Bordeaux region of southwest France, around the city of Bordeaux, on the Garonne River. To the north of the city the Dordogne River joins the Garonne forming the ...

- 2005 * 1.50 euro - silver - 150th anniversary of Bordeaux Wines - 2005 * 1.50 euro - silver - 60th anniversary of World War II - 2005 * 10 euro - gold - Bicentenary of

Austerlitz Austerlitz may refer to: History * Battle of Austerlitz, an 1805 victory by the French Grand Army of Napoleon Bonaparte Places * Austerlitz, German name for Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic, which gave its name to the Battle of Austerlitz a ...

- 2005 * 1.50 - silver - Europa - 2005 * 1.50 euro - silver - Frédéric Chopin - 2005 * 20 euro - silver - Jules Verne/''

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (french: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre- ...

'' - 2005 * 0.25 euro - base metal - Jules Verne/ Monde Fantastique - 2005 * 1.50 euro - silver - The Sower/ Le Semeuse - 2005 * 20 euro - gold - 120th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty - 2004 * 100 euro - gold - 120th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty - 2004 * 1.50 euro - silver - 120th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty - 2004 * 1.50 euro - silver - Avignon and the Palaces of the Popes - 2004 * 10 euro - gold - Bicentennial of Napoleon's coronation - 2004? * 0.25 euro - silver - Europa - 2003 * 10 euro - gold - Europa - 2004 * 1.50 euro - silver - FIFA centennial - 2004 * 20 euro - silver - Jules Verne/'' Around the World in Eighty Days'' - 2005 * 20 euro - gold - "

Château de Chambord The Château de Chambord () in Chambord, Centre-Val de Loire, France, is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with cla ...

" - 2003 * 1.50 euro - silver - World Athletic Championships (WAC)/

Jumping Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotics, robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jumping can be distinguished from running, gallo ...

- 2003 * 1.50 euro - silver - WAC/

Throwing Throwing is an action which consists in accelerating a projectile and then releasing it so that it follows a ballistic trajectory, usually with the aim of impacting a remote target. This action is best characterized for animals with prehensile ...

- 2003 * 20 euro - gold - Paris-Tokyo flight - 2003 * 20 euro - gold - The Normandie - 2003 * 1.50 euro - silver - The Normandie - 2003 * 20 euro - gold - The

Orient Express The ''Orient Express'' was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company ''Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits'' (CIWL) that operated until 2009. The train traveled the length of continental Europe and int ...

- 2003 * 1.50 euro - silver - Messageries Maritimes - 2004 * 1.50 euro - silver - The Grands Express Aériens - 2004 * 1.50 euro - silver - Yellow Cruise Half-Track - 2004 * 20 euro - gold - D-Day Anniversary - 2004 * 50 euro - gold -

Hello Kitty , also known by her full name , is a fictional Character (arts), character created by Yuko Shimizu, currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi, and owned by the Japanese company Sanrio. Sanrio depicts Hello Kitty as an Anthropomorphism, anthropomorphi ...

/"Versailles Debut" - 2005 * 10 euro - gold - Hello Kitty/"Kitty Becomes an Opera Singer" - 2005 * 1.50 euro - silver - Hello Kitty/"Life In Paris" series of 3 - 2005 * 1.50 euro – silver - 100th Anniversary of the

French Automobile Club The Automobile Club of France (french: Automobile Club de France, links=no) (ACF) is a men's club founded on November 12, 1895 by Albert de Dion, Paul Meyan, and its first president, the Dutch-born Baron Etienne van Zuylen van Nijevelt. The Auto ...

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