Silver coin of France «120 years of the Eiffel Tower» 2009, 39.96 g of fine silver (0.900 fineness)

A commemorative silver coin issued in France in 2009 is dedicated to the memory of the outstanding designer, architect and author of the Eiffel Tower - Gustave Eiffel. It was his project "300 meter metal tower," as he himself called it, that was chosen by the French government as the business card of the World Exhibition held in 1889. According to Gustave's idea, the towers were a kind of entrance to the exhibition and were supposed to delight and amaze all visitors to the exhibition. The tower was conceived as a temporary structure. And built with the use of progressive technologies of that time and in a very short time (two years, two months and five days). Now the Eiffel Tower is a symbol of Paris and one of the most frequently photographed attractions in the world.