50 Euros The Little Prince and the fox

Issued as part of Monnaie de Paris's ongoing Little Prince commemorative program, which launched in 2015 on the 70th anniversary of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book and has since expanded into one of the mint's most commercially sustained collector series. Saint-Exupéry himself disappeared over the Mediterranean in July 1944 on a reconnaissance mission, and his rights estate — managed for decades by his niece Françoise de Saint Exupéry — has been notably selective about licensing, making the Monnaie de Paris partnership one of the few sanctioned numismatic uses of the characters.