10 Euros Spirit of St Louis

Issued to mark the 90th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's May 1927 transatlantic crossing, this piece commemorates a flight that took 33.5 hours and covered roughly 5,800 kilometers from Roosevelt Field, New York to Le Bourget aerodrome outside Paris. The French connection is direct: the Monnaie de Paris has a particular institutional stake in the event, as it was a $25,000 prize offered by French-born New York hotelier Raymond Orteig that motivated the attempt in the first place.

Lindbergh landed to a crowd estimated at 150,000.