2025 France €20 High Relief Silver Proof Coin - The Art of the Quill: Jules Verne

• Mint: Monnaie de Paris
• Denomination: €20
• Quality: Proof
• Issue limit: 3,000 pcs.
• Alloy: 99.9% Silver
• Diameter: 37 mm
• Weight: 31.1 grams (1 troy ounce)
• Box/Capsule: Yes/Yes
• Certificate: Yes

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The series Art of the Quill focuses on authors who have marked literature history in France and abroad. After celebrating Jean de La Fontaine and Dante Alighieri in 2021, and Shakespeare and Molière in 2022, Alexandre Dumas & Luis Vaz de Camoes in 2024, the time has come to honor Jules Verne on the 120th anniversary of his passing.

Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. He wrote a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), In Search of the Castaways (1867-68), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), The Mysterious Island (1875), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well-researched according to the scientific knowledge then available, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time.

On the obverse Jules Verne plays the role of a magician, revealing all his inventions and imaginations from his top hat. References to From the Earth to the Moon, Around the Moon, Five weeks in a balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Mysterious Island, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and Journey to the Center of the Earth blend together to paint an overall picture of the Voyages extraordinaires.

The reverse is common to the entire "Art of the Quill" series. Several iconic quotations can be read, such as Voltaire’s “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien", Dante Alighieri’s "Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch'intrate", William Shakespeare’s "To be or not to be : that is the question" and Nietzsche’s "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker". A feather is engraved in the center of the coin and underneath is the title of the series.