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| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Weight | 50 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ 2020 |
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Part of the long-running French "Valeurs de la République" oak tree series, this issue belongs to a program that Monnaie de Paris has returned to repeatedly since the early 2000s, each iteration adjusting metal, weight, or face value while keeping the oak as the symbolic anchor of French republican identity. The series draws on the oak's role in French heraldry predating the Revolution itself.
The .900 silver specification — rather than the .999 fine silver increasingly standard in modern bullion issues — points to a deliberate continuity with historic French coinage alloys.