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1.5 Euro - Feast of the Vouivre
| Issuer | City of Dole |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Local coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Dole's Vouivre festival tokens belong to a wave of French municipal "monnaie de nécessité" issued during the 1990s, when dozens of towns revived local commerce schemes tied to folklore events. The Vouivre is a serpentine creature from Franc-Comtois legend — part dragon, part water spirit — whose ruby eye, according to tradition, she sets aside before bathing, leaving it vulnerable to theft. Dole's adoption of the myth as civic currency is characteristically Jurassian: the region has claimed the Vouivre as its own since at least the 19th century, with Guy de Maupassant later borrowing the figure for a well-known 1882 short story.