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50 Euros De Gaulle - Churchill
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Conjoined effigies of Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill in left-facing profile, set against a backdrop of the French Tricolour and the British Union Jack flags rendered in the field. The legend 'RF C. DE GAULLE W. CHURCHILL' appears alongside the inscription '80 ANS', referencing the 80th anniversary of the Free France movement. The design combines portraiture with symbolic national imagery in a modern commemorative style. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued as part of the Monnaie de Paris "Grandes Heures de l'Histoire Franco-Britannique" series, this piece commemorates the relationship between de Gaulle and Churchill — one defined as much by friction as by alliance. Churchill famously complained that the heaviest cross he bore during the war was the Cross of Lorraine, a direct dig at de Gaulle's intractability. Roosevelt shared the sentiment. De Gaulle was excluded from the D-Day planning entirely until the final hours, a slight he never forgot.
The 7.78g weight places this squarely in the quarter-ounce format used across the Paris mint's modern gold commemorative output.