200 Euros Airbus A380

The A380 program was already showing signs of commercial strain by 2017 — Airbus had begun quietly negotiating with airlines over order cancellations, and the jet would be formally discontinued less than two years later in 2019. Monnaie de Paris issued this coin as part of its ongoing French Excellence series celebrating domestic industrial achievement, at precisely the moment that achievement was becoming complicated.

The 31.1g fine gold specification places this squarely in the one-troy-ounce bullion-format range, though it was sold at a significant premium as a collector piece rather than traded on gold weight alone.