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10 Euros Elysée Treaty
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the facing busts of French President General Charles de Gaulle on the left and German Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on the right, their effigies turned inward toward the central denomination '10 EURO' flanked by the commemorative dates '1963-2013'. The facsimile signatures of both statesmen appear beneath their respective portraits. Above the effigies, the French inscription '50e ANNIVERSAIRE DU TRAITÉ DE L'ÉLYSÉE' arcs across the upper field, followed below by the German equivalent 'ÉLYSÉE-VERTRAG'. The initials 'RF' (République Française) are inscribed at the lower centre of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50e ANNIVERSAIRE DU TRAITÉ DE L'ÉLYSÉE ÉLYSÉE-VERTRAG RF 10 EURO 1963 - 2013 |
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The Élysée Treaty of January 1963 was itself a Cold War improvisation — de Gaulle and Adenauer had no formal diplomatic framework for bilateral reconciliation, so they built one from scratch, signing in the Salon des Fêtes at the Élysée Palace six months after de Gaulle's Bundestag speech stunned the German political establishment. The 50th anniversary issue from Monnaie de Paris was struck jointly with the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, with the German Mint producing a parallel commemorative — a rare instance of coordinated sovereign coinage between two eurozone states.