France: 10, 20 & 50 cents 2024

Source: Official picture by MdP, found on WoC

Sadly those beautiful coins will never be issued due to interference from the EU

These are the new, revised designs approved by EU…..

Here are the “old” ones, which the mint actually struck, but then the EU hammer fell (all are melted back to basic metal?)

Have a look at WoC here, http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,56156.0.html

Already in the Numista catalog.

Interesting they chose to honor an American woman.

From Wikipedia:

"Baker was celebrated by artists and intellectuals of the era, who variously dubbed her the "Black Venus", the "Black Pearl", the "Bronze Venus", and the "Creole Goddess".^[4] Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she renounced her U.S. citizenship and became a French national after her marriage to French industrialist Jean Lion in 1937.^[5] She raised her children in France."

A matter of discussion if you can really renounce an American citizenship? I don't know.

I knew that about her.  There have been many documentaries about her here in the US. Quite a fascinating woman.