La Semeuse — 5 Euro Bi-color 2004

Name: La Semeuse — 5 Euro Bi-color 2004
Brand: monnaie de paris
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Monnaie de Paris · Belle Épreuve

La Semeuse — 5 Euro Bi-color (Silver and Gold) 2004

The Sower of Roty steps into the euro — silver flan with a gold central insert

Metals	Silver 900‰ (outer ring) and Gold 750‰ / 18 carats (central insert)
Weight	Silver 22.2 g — Gold 2.7 g
Diameter	37 mm
Quality	Belle Épreuve (Proof finish)
Original design	Louis-Oscar Roty, La Semeuse, 1887
Authorised mintage	3,000 specimens
Delivery	Original capsule and case · numbered certificate signed by Dov Zerah, Mintmaster of the Monnaie de Paris

Obverse. The Sower of Roty in gold, striding to the left, sowing against the wind, set on a rectangular gold insert at the centre of a silver field. Twelve stars surround her. The date is split 20 — 04 across the figure, RF below.

Reverse. Profile of Marianne to the left, facing a guilloched silver field on which the words « Liberté Égalité Fraternité » are micro-engraved as an all-over pattern. Face value 5 euro on the right.

Context

Louis-Oscar Roty drew his Sower in 1887 as a medal for the Ministry of Agriculture. From 1898 she walked across French silver coinage — 50 centimes, 1 franc, 2 francs — and stayed there, with brief interruptions, until the franc was retired in 2001. This 2004 issue brings her back in the new currency, and pairs her for the first time with a gold insert struck within the silver flan. The mintage of 3,000 makes it among the lower numbers in the Monnaie de Paris’s early-euro Belle Épreuve programme.