SLO Collections was a French private publisher that produced a wave of speculative "euro fantasy" pieces in the late 1990s, attributing invented local coinages to individual French communes ahead of the actual euro introduction in 1999. Bettancourt-La-Ferrée is a small village in Haute-Marne. These pieces had no legal tender status anywhere and were sold directly to collectors as novelties, capitalizing on euro anticipation fever before any official cent had been struck.
SLO Collections was a French private publisher that produced a wave of speculative "euro fantasy" pieces in the late 1990s, attributing invented local coinages to individual French communes ahead of the actual euro introduction in 1999. Bettancourt-La-Ferrée is a small village in Haute-Marne. These pieces had no legal tender status anywhere and were sold directly to collectors as novelties, capitalizing on euro anticipation fever before any official cent had been struck.