50 Euros Lyon Saint-Exupéry Railway Station

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.

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