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200 Euros Invalides/Grand Palais
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a detailed cartographic rendering of central Paris occupying the right portion of the field, with the locations of the Invalides and the Grand Palais marked thereon, referencing the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Paris, Banks of the Seine. The left portion bears the UNESCO logotype, the face value 200 EURO, and the year of issue 2015. The inscriptions GRAND PALAIS and INVALIDES, together with the legend Paris rives de la seine, further identify the commemorated heritage sites. The composition balances cartographic precision with institutional heraldic elements in a modern numismatic style. |
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Part of the Monnaie de Paris "Monuments de Paris" series, this issue commemorates two landmarks with a shared biographical detail: both the Hôtel des Invalides and the Grand Palais were completed under Louis XIV and Napoleon III respectively, yet both served as military hospitals during the First World War. The Grand Palais was requisitioned as a triage and treatment center as early as 1914, its vast iron-and-glass nave converted almost overnight.
The one-troy-ounce format places this squarely in the bullion-collector crossover market the Monnaie de Paris cultivated aggressively through the 2010s.