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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

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Features

Location France
Type Souvenir medallions
Years 2002-2006
Composition Aluminium-nickel bronze
Weight 15.75 g
Diameter 34 mm
Thickness 2.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
32020
References JTC# FR75-0233
Jean Imhof, François Blanchet; 2015. Cotation des jetons touristiques. Éditions de la Monnaie, La Mothe-Achard, France.
, MDP# 7501LOU1/02B
Jean-Luc Gosse; 2019. L'Officiel des médailles souvenir touristiques événementielles et publicitaires: Monnaie de Paris = The Official Guide to Souvenir Medals for Tourist Events and Advertising (11th Edition). Infopuce, Marseille, 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 periphery. In the center in a hexagon, the building of the Monnaie de Paris encircled by 12 stars, Vintage repeated on 2 sides of the hexagon.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
• COLLECTION NATIONALE •
EDITION LIMITÉE
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2002 MONNAIE DE PARIS 2002
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
LIMITED EDITION
• MÉDAILLE OFFICIELLE •

Edge

Reeded

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

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Mint

Mintmark of Monnaie de Paris 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 Frequency
2002  40 000 (fr) Revers 2002 Différent en bas 45%
2003  (fr) Revers 2003 Différent en bas 10%
2003  (fr) Revers 2003 Différent en haut 16%
2004  (fr) Revers 2004 Différent en bas 23%
2004  (fr) Revers 2004 sans Différent 10%
2005  10 000 (fr) Revers 2005 Différent en bas 13%
2006  (fr) Revers 2006 Différent en bas 13%

Frequencies show the percentage of Numista users who own each year or variety among all the users who own this item. Since some users own several versions, the sum may be greater than 100%.

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