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1,5 Euro - Cassis
| Issuer | City of Cassis |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Local coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse depicts Calendal, the eponymous hero of Frédéric Mistral's 1867 Provençal epic poem, shown standing in full figure against a Provençal landscape in the field. To the right appears a portrait effigy of poet Frédéric Mistral. The legend identifying the subject and the poem's date is inscribed across the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | CALENDAL héros Frédéric MISTRAL poème de 1867 |
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Cassis issued this piece in 1997 as a local emergency currency — a *bon de nécessité* — a French tradition stretching back to wartime shortages that persisted in small municipalities well into the late twentieth century as a mechanism for funding civic events and keeping tourist spending local. These aluminum-bronze pieces circulated within the commune's boundaries, accepted by participating merchants as a means of encouraging economic activity tied to the town itself rather than bleeding out through national retail channels.