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| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | CHAMPION DU MONDE FIA 2006 DES CONSTRUCTEURS DE FORMULE 1· FIA MANUFACTURERS' FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONS RENAULT 2006 |
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Issued to commemorate Renault's back-to-back Formula 1 Constructors' Championships in 2005 and 2006, this piece belongs to a broader Monnaie de Paris sports series that leaned heavily on French industrial and athletic prestige during the mid-2000s. Renault's dominance in those seasons — with Fernando Alonso taking both Drivers' titles — was the direct commercial hook. The .920 fineness is a deliberate throwback to pre-decimal French gold coinage standards, a choice the Monnaie de Paris made repeatedly across its collector issues of this period rather than adopting the more conventional .999 purity used by most contemporary bullion programs.