The "Greta Garbo" nickname for this issue has nothing to do with the actress — French collectors coined the phrase because these 100-franc silver pieces were notoriously hoarded the moment they left the mint window, a nod to Garbo's famous reluctance to be seen in public. The Monnaie de Paris produced numerous silver 100-franc commemoratives throughout the 1990s, and several became instant cabinet pieces rather than circulating currency.
KM#1092 belongs to a broader French commemorative program that frequently outpaced collector demand forecasts, leaving mintage figures for individual issues harder to track than the series' reputation would suggest.
The "Greta Garbo" nickname for this issue has nothing to do with the actress — French collectors coined the phrase because these 100-franc silver pieces were notoriously hoarded the moment they left the mint window, a nod to Garbo's famous reluctance to be seen in public. The Monnaie de Paris produced numerous silver 100-franc commemoratives throughout the 1990s, and several became instant cabinet pieces rather than circulating currency.
KM#1092 belongs to a broader French commemorative program that frequently outpaced collector demand forecasts, leaving mintage figures for individual issues harder to track than the series' reputation would suggest.