0 euro - Rochefort-sur-Mer - Le radeau de la Méduse

0 euro - Rochefort-sur-Mer - Le radeau de la Méduse - obverse0 euro - Rochefort-sur-Mer - Le radeau de la Méduse - reverse

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Features

Location France
Issuing company Euro Banknote Memory
Period Fifth Republic (1958-date)
Type Paper exonumia › Souvenir note
Year 2017
Value 0 Euro (0 EUR)
Currency Euro (2002-date)
Composition Paper
Size 135 × 74 mm
Shape Rectangular
Number
N#
303695

Obverse

A 1:1 scale reconstruction of the Raft of the Medusa can be seen in the courtyard of the Musée de la Marine in Rochefort-sur-Mer, a French commune in the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
LE RADEAU DE LA MEDUSE
EUROSOUVENIR
2017 - 1
0
0
EURO
SOUV
ENIR
Musée national de la Marine
R. FAILLE
C.E.O.
UELA

Reverse

Representation of six European monuments:
- Berlin's Brandenburg Gate.
- London's Big Ben.
- Paris's Eiffel Tower.
- Rome's Colosseum.
- Barcelona's Sagrada Familia.
- Brussels' Manneken Pis.
The Mona Lisa portrait on the right.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
0€
DASBRANENBUGERTOR
BIGBEN
COLOSSEO
LATOUREIFFEL
SAGRADAFAMILIA
MANNEKEN PIS
IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE
0
EURO
SOUV
ENIR

Signature

Richard Faille (RF), Chief executive officer

Printer

Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date)

Comments

Commander Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys, a viscount from Limousin who had returned from exile, was appointed captain of the Méduse, despite the fact that he had not sailed for over twenty years. In an attempt to get ahead of the three other ships, the frigate deviated from its course by 160 kilometers and left the planned route. On July 2, 1816, La Méduse ran aground on the Banc d'Arguin, 80 kilometers off the coast of Mauritania. The crew built a raft using spars (assembled with ropes and nailed with planks to form a slippery, unstable grating) to unload the frigate of its heavy cargo, with the exception of the 44 cannons, and refloat it. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Radeau_de_La_M%C3%A9duseAutomatically translated

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Date Signatures Mintage VG F VF XF AU UNC
2017  RF 5 000 (fr) 2017 - 1

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