Little Prince

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Source of image: www.nbrb.by	THE LITTLE PRINCE The Little Prince, a fairy tale by the French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is one of the most famous literary works of the 20th century. This fairy tale is not so much for the kids as for the adults, since it is a story about the eternal philosophical problems of mankind - life and death, the essence of existence, and the place of humans in this world. And all this is presented in a very delicate and philosophical way-as if it were an inflamed fantasy of the author proper who finds himself stranded in the midst of a desert following a plane crash. Underlying the tale is a contrast between two worlds, two origins, and... their compositional interconnection. They are separated, run parallel to each other, and never intersect, deep desert sands flow between them - but still they are together. This dualism of the world and duality or our feelings are emphasized by the coin's composition: its main image also consists of two interrelated but separate subjects. The principal symbolic characters of the fairy tale are: the graceful and smart small animal ("my fox, my friend, you become responsible, forever, for what we have tamed"); the rose - a proud but fretful flower, the symbol of love and beauty of life ("she has filled my life with aroma, but I failed to appreciate it"); the desert - the symbol of loneliness and infinity; the star - the symbol of the little prince ("you will have very special stars, the ones that can smile"); and the well - a place next to which the small prince first appeared on the Planet Earth - the author's symbol for the little prince. Everything is very simple but... Source: „Памятныя манеты Нацыянальнага банка Республiкi Беларусь 1996 - 2006“ (Commemorative coins of the National bank of the Republic of Belarus 1996 – 2006), Minsk 2008	Date : 24.05.2005 Metal :  Ag 925 Diameter, mm :  38.61 Weight, g :  26.16 Mintage, St. :  20000 Minted by : The Mint of Poland PLC., Warsaw, Poland Design : S.Nekrasova   Ebay-Statistic (Prices in Euro): Year Count Ave rage Min. Max. 2006 17 27,17 19,90 41,30 2007 19 28,73 16,01 47,07 2008 24 34,28 20,03 54,05 2009 11 31,08 25,51 43,00 2010 17 31,54 21,00 43,00 2011 3 32,48 29,53 34,37
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