French Mint or Monnaie de Paris have been issuing this Mother Teresa 1oz €200 Gold Proof this month and look like all 500 pieces has been sold out. Monnaie de Paris is issuing this coin based on the centenary of the birth of Mother Teresa. An Albanian born Indian nun, winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and beatified by Pope John-Paul II in 2003, Mother Teresa has left an unquestionable legacy thanks to her selfless acts for young people and those who are oppressed the most.
The obverse of the coin shows a scene of Mother Teresa carrying a child, surrounded by the sentence "In our house there is always a bed ready for one more child". The characteristic hair band of Missionaries of Charity, the order of Mother Teresa, separates the coin between the picture and the RF legal inscription. On the reverse, in front of a background representing the crownd, is an image of Mother Teresa and Pope John-Paul II, surrounded by the text "Centenaire de la naissance de Mère Teresa".
Technical Specifications:
Artist: Atelier de Gravure
Weight: 1 oz
Diameter: 37 mm
Mintage: 500
Metal: Gold
Quality: Proof
Item can be viewed at Monnaie de Paris.
Mother Teresa or Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. By the 1970s, she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary and book Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work.
