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50 Euros Odette de Crécy
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | Odette de Crécy RF |
| Reverse description | The reverse features a stylised portrait of Marcel Proust rendered in a graphic, high-contrast engraving style, occupying the central and right portion of the field. To the left, a quotation from Proust's novel is inscribed in capital letters across multiple lines. The denomination '50 EURO' appears in large numerals to the upper right, with a facsimile of Marcel Proust's signature below. The date '2013' is struck at the bottom of the field, flanked by the Monnaie de Paris mint mark. |
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Part of the Monnaie de Paris series honoring characters from Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, this piece commemorates Odette de Crécy — the courtesan whose calculated social ascent through the Guermantes set forms one of Proust's sharpest dissections of Third Republic bourgeois ambition. The series was issued on the centenary of the novel's first volume, Du côté de chez Swann, published in 1913 after Proust famously self-financed the edition following rejection by Gallimard.