Belgium 5 Euro Coin 2024 “Lucky Luke” Relief BU in Coincard

I'm a poor lonesome cowboy and a long way from home... 

This tune ends almost all the adventures of Lucky Luke, brainchild of Belgian comic book author Maurice De Bevere and better known under the pseudonym Morris. Together with his faithful horse Jolly Jumper and Rataplan, the dumbest dog in the West, Lucky Luke has been roaming the wild plains of the Far West to fight crime and injustice since 1946. In his long, eventful cowboy career, he has put more crooks behind bars than all the sheriffs of America combined. Billy the Kid, Jesse James, the Daltons and many other gunslingers can speak for themselves. 

The Lucky Luke series became one of the most successful European comic book series ever. Since its inception, more than 300 million albums have been sold worldwide, the series has been translated into some 30 languages and featured as an animated series in some 50 countries. According to experts, the stories written by Asterix screenwriter René Goscinny from 1955 to 1977 are among the absolute best. Morris died in 2001, but unlike, say, Hergé's Tintin, the Lucky Luke storyline is continued to this day by other illustrators and scriptwriters such as Achdé and Gerra. 

First Belgian coin of the man who shoots faster than his shadow!

After Tintin, Suske & Wiske, Spirou and many other heroes of the Belgian comic strip, Lucky Luke now has his own Belgian comic strip coin. We do say ‘coin’ because we did previously publish two comic book medals for the birthday of our lonely cowboy. We also say ‘Belgian’ because about three years ago French Lucky Luke euros were already issued. The only, real, Belgian Lucky Luke coin is the 5 euro coin you can admire and... you can order right now!

Available to you in two handsome versions!

Like many of our comic strip coins, this 5-euro Lucky Luke coin has been issued in two versions: embossed and coloured. The front of both pieces features the inseparable duo Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. However, the colour 5 euro coin shows the ‘poor lonesome’ cowboy and his faithful horse in the original colours of the albums and also comes in a different coincard packaging. That makes the difference between the two 5-euro coins even greater. And so the desire to suddenly order both versions also grows.