Coin French Mint United Kingdom - 80 years of the VDAY - 1/4 Euros 2025

1/4 Euro FRANCE 2025

Theme: United Kingdom - Singapore

 Series: 80th Anniversary of Victory
 Quality: Uncirculated
 Mintage: 10,000 copies.
 Common metal - 15.8 g - 34 mm in diameter.
 Coin delivered in blister pack 

 Richard, private of the 6th Airborne landed on the night of June 6, 1944. After the Battle of Normandy, concluded in particular by the liberation of Calvados, the
 division was rested in Great Britain. In December 1944, the unit was urgently sent to Belgium to take part in the Battle of the Bulge. It then crossed the Rhine as part of Operation Varsity. At the end of April, it joined up with Soviet troops near Wismar. Its involvement does not stop there, as part of the 6th Airborne is sent to the Far East to take part in the fighting against the Japanese. The war ended on September 2, 1945 and the unit witnessed the disarmament of the Japanese in Malaysia and Singapore. 
 The reverse of this coin highlights all the Allied countries that officially participated in the Normandy landings surrounding the face value and the mention RF. Clockwise: Free France, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Australia, United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Czechoslovakia, Canada, Belgium. The stars under the flags are also a tribute to the "Road to Freedom", kilometer markers marking the route followed by the 3rd American army for the liberation of France to Luxembourg.