10 francs Victor Hugo

The ten francs Victor Hugo is a commemorative coin of ten French francs issued in 1985 on the occasion of the centenary of the death of the writer.

Designed by the engraver Claude Lesot, the play represents the portrait of Victor Hugo and his reverse a book open with an open writing pen, an ancient theater mask recalling that Hugo was also playwright and various characters and elements Taken from the work Les Misérables: Notre-Dame de Paris in the background, a barricade that legs Gavroche, Cosette. The scene is supplemented by the author's signature.