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¼ ECU British Parliament Building
| Issuer | Tower Mint |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Weight | 6.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A detailed architectural view of the Palace of Westminster (British Houses of Parliament) with the Victoria Tower to the left and the Clock Tower (Big Ben) to the right, as seen from across the River Thames, whose embankment is rendered in the lower foreground. The denomination '1/4' appears in the upper field above the building. Two floral ornaments flank the rim at mid-height. The circular legend '* ONE QUARTER ECU *' runs along the upper arc, and the date '1992' is inscribed in the lower exergue. |
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The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in the United Kingdom, but a wave of privately issued commemorative ECU-denominated pieces flooded the market in the early 1990s as European monetary union dominated political debate. The Tower Mint produced several of these for the souvenir and collector trade, priced to capture enthusiasm around the Maastricht Treaty negotiations of 1991–1992. They circulated nowhere.
X# prefixes in the Standard Catalog denote these as fantasy or exonumia issues rather than official coinage.