On 14 July 1790, the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, the Feast of the Federation was celebrated as a celebration of reconciliation and the unity of all French people. Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France and Navarre, swore by nation and law (he was deposed in 1792 during the French Revolution and beheaded by the guillotine in 1793). In 1880, July 14 was declared a national holiday - a day that unites all French people and on which the Republic is celebrated. The coin depicts the profile of Marianne, national symbol of France, with a Jacobin's cap and a cockade worn on it, a circular insignia with the colours of the tricolour (from inside to outside: blue-white-red, represented by a - albeit stylised - hatching according to the heraldic rules of tingierung). On the left is a verse from the poem "Liberté" written in 1942 by the French poet Paul Éluard: "On all the pages read / On all the empty pages / Stone blood paper or ashes / I write your name". Liberté - also the motto of the French Republic - is written at the bottom of the coin. In the "Journal officiel de la République française" it was announced that there are coloured versions of the commemorative coin - 10,000 copies each of the production process Brilliant Mint and Polished Plate. They are therefore legal tender. However, the EU legal technical specifications do not provide for the use of a coloured imprint. Coloured circulation coins should not actually exist; however, they are tolerated by the EU, especially since they are only produced in small quantities and packed separately and are therefore not used as legal tender. In the coloured versions, the blue and red coloured segments of the cockade are minted with a flat surface.
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