French Medalions

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  1. mrbrklyn

    mrbrklyn New Member

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  3. froggycoins

    froggycoins Member

    Hi
    Thanks to you for promoting French Paris Mint !
    Young people here are currently having their "Baccalaureat" graduation tests :cool: this week, hence this medal to commemorate.
    So far i know, it is the first time we commemorate this event in France ( but i m not an aficionado to the medals, so maybe am i wrong ! )
    All The Best
    Philippe
     
  4. mrbrklyn

    mrbrklyn New Member

    ROFL, I'm not certain your serious or not.

    I'll tell you what happened though. My friend went to Paris this week to visit her sister. And she tells me she sees all over Paris that there is this coin they are advertizing. And I said, the Hercules coin, and she say no. So then i said, then I don't know what it is.

    So she sends me a link and says this was it.
     
  5. froggycoins

    froggycoins Member

    I think i am serious in this one :smile
     
  6. chrisild

    chrisild Coin Collector

    No idea how popular those medals are these days, but they must have been around for a while. ;) Here is an article from 2009, about the idea to award medals to good students: http://www.educpros.fr/detail-article/h/d0da6c37c0/a/une-medaille-pour-les-bacheliers.html At the bottom (last sentence) of the text, they mention the medals that the Monnaie de Paris offers ...

    Christian
     
  7. mrbrklyn

    mrbrklyn New Member

    Do I know you? Do you work for the EU in Software and accounting development?
     
  8. froggycoins

    froggycoins Member

    I don't think so... actually I am living in France and working for the Automotive industry :)
     
  9. mrbrklyn

    mrbrklyn New Member

    Yes, my friend is in France. He happens to also be Jewish but I only found that out over dinner in Bordeaux.

    A French automobile? wow, who would have thought it. I thought they only made good bikes.
     
  10. chrisild

    chrisild Coin Collector

    Ah yes, all those Peugeot-Citroën and Renault bikes. :) Most of them have four wheels and more than one seat though, hehe.

    Christian
     
  11. mrbrklyn

    mrbrklyn New Member

    Mavic Rims and Brakes and Bernard Hinault frames. But you might be right about the Renaults in france. They are like Bicycles with 4 wheel. Actually, I thought the the French Government refused to bail our Renault and they went belly up.
     
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