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The Monnaie de Paris pays tribute to the most important masterpieces in French museums or painted in France. The obverse represents Johannes Vermeer’s famous work “The Girl with a Pearl Earring”..The “Museum Masterpiece” stamp that defines this series has been added to the top of the coin and combined with the work. At the bottom of the painting, the facade of the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, where the work was first exhibited outside the Netherlands 100 years ago in 1921, is engraved.