2022 France €10 Silver Proof Coin "Major Landmarks in the History of Humanity: Albert I of Monaco"

• Mint: Monnaie de Paris
• Denomination: €10
• Quality: Proof
• Issue limit: 2,000 pcs.
• Alloy: 90% Silver
• Diameter: 37 mm=1.46 in
• Weight: 22.2 g=0.78 oz
• Box/Capsule: Yes/Yes
• Certificate: Yes

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Monnaie de Paris pays tribute to the characters who have marked the history of humanity.

This series uses the principle of free striking which gives an antique look to the coins and makes each coin perfectly imperfect and therefore unique.

Great-great grandfather of the current Sovereign, Prince Albert I of Monaco (Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi) (1848-1922) was Prince of Monaco from 10 September 1889 until his death. He devoted much of his life to oceanography, exploration and science. Alongside his expeditions, Albert I made reforms on political, economic and social levels, bestowing a constitution on the principality in 1911.

Remembered in Monaco as a reformer and moderniser, he is also noted internationally as the founder of the renowned Oceanographic Institute located in Monte Carlo.

The obverse features a portrait of Prince Albert I of Monaco and the years of birth and death. The reverse shows the facade of the Parisian building called “Institut de France.”