50 Euros Tour de France

This piece was issued as part of Monnaie de Paris's annual Tour de France commemorative series, which ran across multiple years in the early 2010s and featured rotating stage themes. The 2013 edition coincided with the centenary of the first mountain finish at Tourmalet — a race-defining moment from 1910 that forced the Tour's organisers to confront just how brutally the Pyrenees would reshape professional cycling.