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20 Euros 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a portrait bust of Jules Verne, the celebrated French author, positioned prominently against a background composed of various instruments and objects symbolic of exploration, navigation, and scientific adventure, including a compass and other orienteering implements. Surrounding inscriptions give his birth and death years, the denomination, and the issue year. The lower legend identifies him as a precursor of science fiction, and the Republican motto appears along the lower rim. |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Jules Verne's death, this piece is part of the Monnaie de Paris series honoring the author's science fiction canon. Verne died in Amiens in March 1905, and France mounted a substantial commemorative program that year across multiple media. The 155.5-gram silver format places it firmly in the medal-coin category — a collectible object from the outset, never intended for circulation.
Twenty Thousand Leagues itself was serialized in Hetzel's Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation beginning in 1869, two years before appearing as a complete volume.