| Description : The coin, designed by Nicolas Cazan, is supposed to
show General Charles de Gaulle (1890‐1970) addressing the French people via a British BBC radio studio on the
18th of June 1940, calling for resistance against the German Reich. However, the image illustrates
a photographic copy of a document dated 30th of October 1941. At the top of the motif is the year of issue
"2010", flanked on the left by a cornucopia, the mint mark of the French mint Monnaie de Paris in Plessac and on
the right by a hunting horn with the sign of the zodiac for Pisces, the logo of mint master Hubert Larivières.
At the top right, in three lines is the reason of the issue "70 ANS APPEL 18 JUIN" (70th anniversary of the
appeal of June the 18th) and at the bottom the country abbreviation "RF" (République française, French
Republic). |
