Monnaie de Paris Tourist Token - Les 7 merveilles du monde antique Les jardins suspendus de Babylone

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Building of the Monnaie de Paris inscribed in a circle.

Lettering:
FRANCIA - Франция - FRANKREICH - 法国 - فرنسا - フランス - צרפת - फ्रांस
FRANCE
MONNAIE
DE PARIS
2015

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Milled

Comment

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are an ancient building, considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. They appear in the writings of several ancient Greek and Roman authors (Diodorus of Sicily, Strabo, Philo of Alexandria, etc.), all of whom were inspired by older sources that have disappeared, including the Babylonian priest Berossus. It is to the latter that we owe the story of the construction of these gardens by Nebuchadnezzar II in order to remind his wife, Amytis of Media, of the wooded mountains of her native land.