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
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