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2010Commemorative coinThe Call made by General de Gaulle on 18 June 1940 |
Official Journal of the European Union |
The Call made by General de Gaulle on 18 June 1940 from London, via the BBC, which was a genuine founding act of the Resistance. The inner part of the coin shows General de Gaulle, in uniform, bareheaded, at a microphone typical of the time, reading the Call, in which the name of the country ‘RF’ is cleverly inserted. At the top is the year of issue ‘2010’, and below it ‘70 ANS’ (70 YEARS) and ‘APPEL 18 JUIN’ (CALL 18 JUNE). The coin's outer ring depicts the 12 stars of the European flag. |
| © European Union, 1998-2025, Official Journal of the European Union, 2010/C 137/10 |
Additional information |
The coin is intended to show General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) addressing the French people on 18 June 1940 in a studio of the British radio station BBC, calling for resistance to the German Reich. However, the depiction is illustrated by a photographic document dated 30 October 1941. |
| (Translation of the excerpt from de.Wikipedia „2-Euro-Gedenkmünzen#Jahrgang 2010“) |
Edge lettering |
| « 2 ★ ★ » repeated six times, alternately upright and inverted |
Designer |
| Nicolas Cozan |
| 2010 | |||||||||
| Monnaie de Paris ( Pessac ) | Hubert Larivière | ||||||||
| Date | Volume | Issuing price | |||||||
| Circulation coins | 18.06.2010 | Rolls of 25 coins | 20.000.000 | 2,00 | € | ||||
| Divisional coin set BU | 17.06.2010 | Annual coin set «70° Anniversaire de l'appel - Le Mont Valérien» contains instead of the 2 € circulation coin, 2€ CC «The Call made by General de Gaulle on 18 June 1940» | 500 | 43,00 | € | ||||
| Divisional coin set BU | 17.06.2010 | Annual coin set «70° Anniversaire de l'appel - Charles de Gaulle» contains instead of the 2 € circulation coin, 2€ CC «The Call made by General de Gaulle on 18 June 1940» | 500 | 43,00 | € | ||||
| Divisional coin set BU | 17.06.2010 | Annual coin set «70° Anniversaire de l'appel - Appel à tous les franca» contains instead of the 2 € circulation coin, 2€ CC «The Call made by General de Gaulle on 18 June 1940» | 500 | 43,00 | € | ||||
| Folder BU | 30.05.2010 | 20.000 | 10,00 | € | |||||
| Folder Proof | 18.06.2010 | 500 | 250,00 | € | |||||
| Box Proof | 18.06.2010 | In box | 10.000 | 20,00 | € | ||||
