10 Euro Hello Kitty

Monnaie de Paris has operated a robust licensed character program for years, issuing silver pieces tied to pop culture properties largely targeting the collector gift market rather than numismatic audiences. Hello Kitty, Sanrio's character created in 1974 by designer Yuko Shimizu, has appeared on coinage across multiple jurisdictions — France is hardly the first. These issues are produced in controlled mintages and rarely circulate, meaning condition is almost never a grading concern.

KM#3371 is a recent addition to a catalog that now runs into the hundreds of such themed issues from this mint alone.