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200 Euros Lille Europe Railway Station
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse depicts a stylized map of northwestern Europe in the upper field, with radiating lines emanating from a central hub at Bruxelles representing the high-speed rail network connecting the cities of London, Amsterdam, Bruxelles, Köln, Luxembourg, and Paris, each city name inscribed adjacent to its corresponding node. To the lower left, the bold inscription 'Gare Lille Europe' dominates the field in large lettering, referencing the Lille-Europe railway station as the thematic subject. In the lower portion, a stylized rendering of the station's distinctive architectural facade — its curved, grid-patterned glass canopy — is depicted in relief to the right, while parallel vertical lines in the lower field evoke railway tracks. The Republican monogram 'RF' (République Française) appears at the bottom of the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Part of Monnaie de Paris's longer-running architectural series commemorating European landmarks, this issue marks the Lille-Europe station — the French terminus purpose-built for Eurostar and Thalys services when the Channel Tunnel opened in 1994. Lille was chosen over a direct Paris routing partly through political negotiation between French regional interests and the TGV network planners, making the station itself an artifact of infrastructure compromise rather than pure engineering logic.