The Adventures of Tintin beginning in 2006 with "Tintin". It was a set of six different euro coins honouring Hergé: three 1½-euro silver coins featuring Tintin and the Professor, Tintin and Captain Haddock, and Tintin and Chang; a €10 (gold) featuring Tintin; and a €20 (silver) and a €50 (gold) featuring Tintin and Snowy. In 2007, on Hergé's centenary, Belgium issued its €20 (silver) Hergé/Tintin coin. During Hergé's lifetime, parodies were produced of the "Adventures of Tintin", with one of the earliest appearing in Belgian newspaper "La Patrie" after the liberation of the country from Nazi German occupation in September 1944. Entitled (""Tintin in
Tintin (character) been written by any Belgian in my situation. They are not very intelligent, I know, and do me no honour: they are 'Belgian' books." Peeters deemed the early Tintin to be "a Sartre-esque character", an "existentialist before the term had been coined", having "no surname, no family, hardly anything of a face, and the mere semblance of a career." Ultimately, he deemed him nothing but a "narrative vehicle" for the story, being an otherwise incoherent character. The image of Tintin—a round-faced young man running with a white fox terrier by his side—is easily one of the most recognisable visual icons