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10 Euros Women's suffrage
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A stylised portrait of a woman faces left in a retrospective pose, evoking the long struggle for gender equality and justice in France. Several envelopes and a ballot box are depicted in the field as symbolic references to women's right to vote. The inscriptions '1944' and '2024' flank the design, commemorating the 80th anniversary of women's suffrage in France. The abbreviated legend 'RF' denotes the French Republic, while the phrase '80 ANS du DROIT de VOTE des FEMMES' arcs prominently across the design. |
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France was among the last Western democracies to grant women the vote, doing so only in April 1944 — decades after the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. The delay was driven in part by persistent Senate obstruction; the lower chamber had passed women's suffrage bills multiple times dating back to 1919, only to see them killed in the upper house. First exercise of that right came in the municipal elections of April 29, 1945.
Billon at .333 fineness places this squarely in commemorative-circulation territory — silver enough to carry the designation, base enough for mass production.