10 Euros Year of the Rooster

Issued under France's ongoing lunar series, this piece was struck the same year the Monnaie de Paris relocated significant production operations — a transition that briefly affected packaging and certificate consistency across several collector issues from this period. The rooster carries particular resonance in France given its status as the Gallic symbol, making this the rare case where a Chinese zodiac release aligns almost too neatly with the issuing nation's own iconography.