Among the biggest draws of the wizarding world of the Harry Potter franchise are the fun and funny little touches that populate the fiction: everything from games to drinks and sweets that all have a wacky touch of the magical about them. A perfect example is the Chocolate Frog, a popular candy made from magical “croakoa” that could jump and move around like a real frog, each one packaged with trading cards featuring famous witches and wizards. These magical candies are celebrated by Monnaie de Paris with a fun collectible: the 2022 French Harry Potter Chocolate Frog Mini-Medal.
Medal Highlights:
- Ships in a secured plastic capsule!
- Issued in 2022!
- Mintage of 25,000 pieces!
- Contains 17.7 grams of Nordic Gold.
- Obverse side features the logo of Monnaie de Paris.
- Reverse side features a Chocolate Frog climbing on its packaging.
As was often the case with the world of Harry Potter, important story clues could be hidden in the most “mundane” things in the wizarding world. Chocolate Frogs provided an instance of this when one of their trading cards proved to carry a clue to a mystery in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. For the most part, however, they act as one of the fun pieces of setting flavor — literally — that make the wizarding world of the franchise feel wonderfully alive and enchanted. As with so many magical things, they could be a bit unpredictable and chaotic, for example when many Chocolate Frogs were released from their packaging at once.
The 2022 French Harry Potter Chocolate Frog Mini-Medal captures the fun of these magical, moving sweets, but is created with the same advanced minting techniques that are the hallmark of Monnaie de Paris. It comes in a secure plastic capsule, and each collectible ships fully insured by JM Bullion against damage or loss. Nordic Gold coins are actually copper-based coins with a gold appearance to the metallic alloy. These types of coins often have 89% copper with a balance of aluminum, zinc, and tin.
The logo of Monnaie de Paris appears on the mini medal’s obverse side, a stylized set of arches framed by 28 stars around the rim and accompanied by the inscriptions “Monnaie de Paris” and “2022.”
On the reverse, a Chocolate Frog crawls atop its own elaborate packaging that features the inscriptions “Honeydukes” — a magical sweets shop — and “70% Finest Croakoa,” the fantastic fictional counterpart to “cocoa” that makes the frogs possible. At the rim is the inscription “Chocogrenouille.”
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