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Monnaie de Paris Tourist Token - Musée du Louvre La Pyramide

Monnaie de Paris Tourist Token - Musée du Louvre (La Pyramide) - obverseMonnaie de Paris Tourist Token - Musée du Louvre (La Pyramide) - reverse

Obverse © MesBedes (CC BY-NC-SA) – Reverse © Raoul Dusentier

Features

Location France
Type Souvenir medallions
Year 1999
Composition Aluminium-nickel bronze
Diameter 34 mm
Thickness 2.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
186717
References JTC# FR75-0233
Jean Imhof, François Blanchet; 2015. Cotation des jetons touristiques. Éditions de la Monnaie, La Mothe-Achard, France.

Obverse

Representation of the museum with the glass and metal pyramid, housing the main entrance of the museum in the center of the Napoleon court.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
MUSÉE DU LOUVRE
• • • PARIS • • •

Reverse

Text in the periphery. In the center, the building of the Paris Mint encircled by 12 stars.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
COLLECTION NATIONALE
MONNAIE DE PARIS
MÉDAILLE OFFICIELLE

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Monnaie de Paris, Paris (and Pessac starting 1973), France (864-date)

Comments

The Louvre Pyramid is a pyramid made of glass and metal, located in the middle of the Napoleon courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris. It houses the main entrance of the museum. It was first inaugurated by President François Mitterrand on March 4, 1988, and a second time on March 29, 1989.
Commissioned by François Mitterrand in 1983, the pyramid was designed by the Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei. The metal structure that supports the glass cladding is made of steel and aluminum and weighs 200 tons; it rises to 21.64 meters on a square base of 35.42 meters side. It is covered with 603 rhombuses and 70 triangles of glass and is the first major construction to use laminated glass.
The pyramid caused great controversy when it was presented in 1984.Automatically translated

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Date Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1999)  40 000

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