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10 Euros Poitou-Charentes
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Engraver(s) | J. Jimenez |
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| Obverse description | At the upper left, a portrait of the French novelist Pierre Loti is depicted in profile, accompanied by the inscriptions 'PIERRE' and 'LOTI' identifying the subject. To the upper right, an architectural staircase motif references his heritage. In the lower field, a cartographic outline of the Poitou-Charentes region is rendered, above which the initials 'RF' (République Française) appear. A scroll along the coin's lower arc bears the regional legend 'POITOU-CHARENTES', integrating geographic and cultural identity into the design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Part of the Monnaie de Paris "Régions de France" series issued across 2010–2012, this piece belongs to a program that assigned each metropolitan region its own commemorative, sold primarily through collector channels. Poitou-Charentes — the region that produced René Descartes and whose coastline sheltered significant Huguenot populations before the Edict of Fontainebleau scattered them across Protestant Europe — was among the final batch struck before the series closed.
The .500 fineness is deliberately low for a silver commemorative, a cost-containment decision that kept retail prices accessible.