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) played Tintin returning from the adventures "Tintin in America" and "The Blue Lotus". Actress Jane Rubens was the first to play Tintin on stage in April 1941. The plays, written by Jacques Van Melkebeke, included "Tintin in India: The Mystery of the Blue Diamond" and "". She was later replaced by 11-year-old Roland Ravez, who also lent his voice to recordings of the "Cigars of the Pharaoh" and "The Blue Lotus". Jean-Pierre Talbot played Tintin in two live-action movie adaptations: "Tintin and the Golden Fleece" (1961) and "Tintin and the Blue Oranges" (1964). Canadian actor Colin O'Meara voiced Tintin in