The Monnaie de Paris received 220 requests for replacing medals reported damaged by athletes from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, or 4% of total production, she announces on Friday at AFP. “The currency of Paris has replaced some of them and continues its replacement campaign at the request of athletes,” the company wrote in a press release. Several athletes had shared photos of their defective medals on social networks. About 60,000 medals of all kinds per year in its Parisian workshops. The replaced medals “are identical to those given to athletes during the games”, specifies the currency of Paris. Designed by Maison Chaumet (LVMH group), the manufacture of gold, silver and bronze medals was entrusted to the public establishment of the Monnaie de Paris. Each of them contains a small end of the Eiffel Tower, from the stocks of the operating company of the Parisian monument.
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OJ 2024: 220 defective medals under replacement
