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50 Euros Colorisée Jean-Paul Gaultier La Poule
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 50 Euros |
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| Obverse lettering | RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE 50 EURO 2017 |
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| Mintage | 2017 - - 25,000 |
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Jean-Paul Gaultier collaborated with the Monnaie de Paris on a six-coin series issued between 2017 and 2018, each piece colorized to reproduce specific garments and textile patterns drawn directly from his runway archive. "La Poule" — the hen — is Gaultier's longstanding nickname in the French fashion press, a self-deprecating moniker he adopted publicly and which gave this particular coin its title rather than any design motif.
The colorization was applied by hand-painting over the struck silver field, a technique the Monnaie de Paris has refined since the early 2000s but which still results in meaningful variation between individual pieces.