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50 Euros Cosette
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Value | 50 Euros |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a portrait of Cosette, the iconic fictional character from Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, rendered in a detailed artistic style. A well and a house appear in the background field, evoking the narrative setting of the story. The legend LES MISÉRABLES arcs across the design, with the national monogram RF and the character name COSETTE also inscribed within the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | LES MISÉRABLES RF COSETTE |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, first published in 1862. The Monnaie de Paris produced this as part of a broader commemorative program pairing French literary icons with precious metal issues — a series that generated considerable collector demand domestically but drew criticism from some quarters for leaning heavily on cultural nostalgia as a sales mechanism.
The .920 fineness is notably higher than the .900 gold standard used in most French bullion coinage of the twentieth century.