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.
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.