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  • 2 Euro 2023, KM# 3130, France, Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Sower
  • 2 Euro 2023, KM# 3130, France, Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Sower
  • 2 Euro 2023, KM# 3130, France, Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Sower, Dark blue coincard (BU)
  • 2 Euro 2023, KM# 3130, France, Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Sower, Green coincard (BU)
  • 2 Euro 2023, KM# 3130, France, Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Sower, Light blue coincard (BU)
  • 2 Euro 2023, KM# 3130, France, Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Sower, Red coincard (BU)
  • 2 Euro 2023, KM# 3130, France, Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Sower, Yellow coincard (BU)
Description

The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, and commonly known as Paris 2024, is an international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in Paris, France. Having previously played host in 1900 and 1924, Paris will become the second city to host the Olympics three times, after London (1908, 1948 and 2012). 2024 will mark the centenary of the Paris Games of 1924 and the sixth Olympic Games hosted by France (three in summer and three in winter).

Following the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the year 2021 officially marks the beginning of the countdown to the Paris Games. It is the handing over of the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the previous Games that marks the starting point of a new era of Games in France. 2021 was also the first year of a quadrilogy in which sport and its values will be honored through the Monnaie de Paris' coin and medallions collections. To mark the countdown to the launch of the Games, Monnaie de Paris issued a €2 commemorative coin for four years from 2021. These coins highlighted the Olympic Games through famous French numismatic figures.

Obverse

Depicts the Sower (the French national personification Marianne), practicing boxing in front of the Pont Neuf. The issue date and the Paris 2024 Olympic Games logo on the right. The monogram “RF” of the French Republic on the left. The mint mark and the mark of the general engraver below. The twelve stars of the European flag are shown on the outer ring of the coin.

The Sower originally dates back to 1887. This was the year when Oscar Roty designed a prize medal commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture. He went back to the Sower of 1887 but transformed his robust peasant into a slim Marianne (national symbol of the French Republic, an allegory of liberty and reason), wearing the Phrygian cap of Liberty. The traditional profile of the Republic was abandoned in favour of a more active, standing figure. Originally, The Sower was used on the fifty centime to two franc coins introduced in 1897 and 1898, before appearing on stamps in 1903. It is thus the most widespread work of art in France.

The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris (1607).

Mint mark of the Paris Mint (Monnaie de Paris in Pessac): Cornucopia (horn of plenty)

Privy mark of the General Engraver of the Paris Mint: Two nested squares superimposed on a rhinoceros head (Joaquin Jimenez)

PARIS 2024
RF
2021

Reverse

A geographical map of Western Europe spans the outer ring and inner core on the right side of the coin. The inscription 2 EURO is superimposed over the map of Europe, with the numeral “2” located in an open field representing the eastern Atlantic Ocean.

12 stars are located on the right side of the outer ring, with six stars atop the map of Europe and six stars below it; six vertical stripes cut across the inner core of the coin, visually connecting the upper and lower star segments.

Luc Luycx, a designer at the Royal Belgian Mint, designed the Euro’s common reverse; his initials, LL, are seen on the right side of the design, just under the “O” in “EURO.”

2 EURO
LL

Edge

The sequence "2 ★ ★" repeated six times alternately upright and inverted

2 ★ ★ 2 ★ ★ 2 ★ ★ 2 ★ ★ 2 ★ ★ 2 ★ ★

Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Bi-Metallic
Ring Cupronickel
Center Nickel Brass
Weight 8.5 g
Diameter 25.75 mm
Thickness 2.2 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Paris Mint (A)

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