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500 Francs Pierre and Marie Curie
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Conjoined busts of Pierre and Marie Curie facing left, rendered in high relief in a naturalistic portrait style. Pierre Curie appears in the background with a bearded profile, while Marie Curie is depicted in the foreground with her hair pinned up. The legend REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE curves along the upper periphery, and the inscription PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE appears in the lower field, with the surname CURIE positioned to the right. |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a mortar or evaporating dish, a laboratory vessel symbolic of the Curies' radiochemical research, flanked by two olive branches. Above the vessel, the atomic mass notation Ra=226,0 is inscribed in a handwritten script style, set against a background of concentric semicircular lines suggestive of radioactive emission. The denomination 500 F appears in large numerals in the lower field, with the date 1997 below. The motto LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE curves along the upper periphery. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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