Γαλλία - 10 Ευρώ αργυρό, Juno Beach - D-Day, 2024

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, Monnaie de Paris is minting a collection paying tribute to the soldiers of the four major Allied nations. Through four singular destinies, French commandos, British airborne troops and American and Canadian infantrymen are honored in this historic collection. Fred, a lieutenant with the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, nicknamed the "Little Black Devils", is a member of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He landed on Sword Beach at Graye, near Courseulles. He poses in front of the beach, where we can see a Churchill AVRE tank, two soldiers from his unit holding the Canadian flag of the time, and a traditional house from the Cote de Nacre landscape. The reverse of these coins depicts a spiral of all the Allied nations that took part in the landings, whether on land, sea or in the air. The stars under the flags are also a tribute to the Liberty Road, the milestones marking the route taken by the 3rd American Army to liberate France, as far as Luxembourg.