Symbols linked to Charles de Gaulle: Medal, open book, Arc de Triomphe and BBC microphone. Metropolitan France in the center with the cross of Lorraine.
Obverse lettering
CHARLES DE GAULLE
UN HOMME
UN DESTIN
Chef de l’État Écrivain Résistant Officier
1890 1970
Obverse script
Latin
Reverse description
Political and military symbols of the Gaullian epic: Legion of Honor, Lorraine cross of the memorial and V of the Fifth Republic.
Reverse lettering
L’Homme du Destin
585
Reverse script
Latin
Engraver
Royal Dutch Mint (Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt), Utrecht, Netherlands (1010-date)