16. April 2024  
Monaco  
Artistic Gymnastics

MONACO: Numismatic tribute - 100 years of women's sport

Women at the Olympic Games?
"Impractical, uninteresting, clumsy and, I have no hesitation in adding, inappropriate" was the opinion of Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games. The role of women at the Games, the French baron wrote in 1912, was primarily to "crown the winners".
Nine years later, in 2021, Monte Carlo hosted its first "Women's Olympic Games" and women's sport in Monaco established itself independently from 1924.
<< To mark the occasion, the small country dedicated a numismatic issue at the beginning of April 2024 to the anniversary of "100 years of women's sport", when the women's section of Monaco Sports separated in 1924 and founded itself independently as "Femina Sports de Monaco".


* The first day letter for the numismatic issue of  2024, April 03
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From 1982, the club took on an ambitious sports project, recruited an efficient administrative team of volunteers and employed qualified staff who were committed to passing on their passion for gymnastics in particular to the next generation. The club was reorganised to reflect the needs of the Principality, with both a recreational and a competitive section, which has amassed an impressive list of sporting achievements (national titles, participation in the Games of the Small States of Europe, the European and World Championships, international games, etc.).
Monaco's "Femina Sports" today offers a range of different disciplines, such as rhythmic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, also "baby gym", fitness, circus arts and parkour, acting wisely according to the principle:
Gymnastics is the foundation for all other sports and a true school of life!
*  Found in the world of international philately by Klaus-Jürgen Alde
   - published by GYMmedia INTERNATIONAL / E. Herholz
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♦ Source & Information on the above numismatic issue:
  - Design and line-engraving: Sophie BEAUJARD
  - Printing process:   Intaglio and offset
  - Size of the stamp: 30 x 40,85 mm vertical
  - Quantity of issue:  40 000 stamps
  - Sheet of 10 stamps with illuminations
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