1/4 Euro Handover Tokyo - Paris

Issued to mark the handover of the Olympic flag from Tokyo to Paris at the 2020 Games — delayed to 2021 by the pandemic — this piece belongs to a Monnaie de Paris quarter-euro series that functions more as a ticketed collectible program than a circulating denomination. The face value has no practical monetary role; the quarter-euro has never been legal tender in day-to-day French commerce and exists solely within this collector framework, a format the Paris mint has used since 2002 to monetize Olympic and cultural anniversaries.