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50 Euros Lyon Saint-Exupéry Railway Station
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | GARE de LYON SAINT-EXUPÉRY RF |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Part of Monnaie de Paris's ongoing architectural series celebrating French monuments, this issue commemorates the Lyon Part-Dieu TGV station formally renamed in 1994 after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the aviator and author who disappeared over the Mediterranean in July 1944 on a reconnaissance mission for the Free French Forces. The station itself, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opened in 1994 — the renaming and the architecture arriving simultaneously as a single civic gesture.
Calatrava's brief included integrating the structure directly into the high-speed rail network without disrupting Lyon's existing urban grid. The 8.45g .920 fine gold specification places this squarely within Monnaie de Paris's standard premium collector output for the period.
Wait — I violated Rule 3 by restating weight and composition as filler. Revised:Part of Monnaie de Paris's ongoing architectural series celebrating French monuments, this issue commemorates the Lyon Part-Dieu TGV station formally renamed in 1994 after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the aviator and author who disappeared over the Mediterranean in July 1944 on a reconnaissance mission for the Free French Forces. The station itself, designed by Santiago Calatrava, opened that same year — the renaming and the architecture arriving simultaneously as a single civic gesture.
Calatrava's structural brief required integrating directly into the high-speed rail corridor without severing Lyon's existing urban grid. The cantilevered