Simone Veil, Joséphine Baker, Marie Curie… Discover the new faces of the 10, 20 and 50 centime coins

These new coins will gradually be put into circulation by the summer of 2024, specifies the Paris Mint, responsible for minting the currency.

Of the “sources of daily inspiration for everyone”. The Paris Mint revealed on Wednesday March 6 the new faces of the 10, 20 and 50 centime coins. They will be adorned with the chiseled profile of “three exceptional women”, Simone Veil, Joséphine Baker and Marie Curie. Each minted euro coin has a European side, the reverse, and a national side, the face, which can only be changed every fifteen years. The new coins will gradually be put into circulation by the summer of 2024, specifies the Monnaie de Parie, responsible for minting the currency.

The design of the new coins was imagined by the general engraver of the Paris Mint, Joaquin Jimenez. He thus places in the center the profile of three of the seven women who rest in the Pantheon, with their names engraved, looking in the same direction as a Sower, a symbol appearing on French coins for 120 years, in the foreground.

Survivor of Auschwitz, figure in European politics and the fight for women’s rights, Simone Veil will be the face of the 10 centime coins, detailed the Paris Mint, two days after the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution.

The resistance fighter and feminist and anti-racist activist Joséphine Baker, the first black woman to be pantheonized in 2021, will appear on the 20 cent coins.

Finally, the French scientist, twice Nobel Prize winner, Marie Curie will be the new face of the 50 cent coins. It had already appeared on the latest 500 franc note and several collector’s coins.