10 Euros - Albert II Tintin

Issued to mark the 75th anniversary of Hergé's character, this coin appeared three years before the Belgian government formally recognized Tintin as a national cultural symbol. Belgium had an awkward relationship with Hergé for decades — his wartime collaboration with the Nazi-controlled newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle kept official celebration muted well into the postwar period. By 2004, that ambivalence had largely dissolved into straightforward commercial pride.

Part of a broader Royal Belgian Mint series commemorating Belgian cultural exports, the mintage was capped at 60,000 pieces.