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100 Francs Gérard Philipe
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ RF 100 FRANCS 1995 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gérard Philipe died in 1959 at thirty-six, and the French public's grief was immediate and outsized — he was the closest thing postwar French cinema had to a romantic ideal. This coin was struck as part of the Monnaie de Paris's ongoing commemorative program marking figures of French cultural history, issued thirty-six years after his death.
The .900 silver specification places it in the same series architecture used for several French cultural commemoratives of the mid-1990s, produced primarily for collector sale rather than circulation.