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1 ECU - Paneuropean Union
| Issuer | Pan-European Union (Paneuropa-Union) |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a quadriga — a chariot drawn by four horses — driven by a female figure, rendered in a classical neoclassical style. To the left of the central design appears the emblem of the Pan-European Union, comprising a cross surrounded by twelve stars. The date is inscribed in Roman numerals in the exergue. The legend CONFŒDERATIO · EUROPÆA arcs along the upper periphery, with the artist's name J. PAVLVS appearing in the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Greek |
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The Paneuropa-Union, founded by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1923, was the earliest organized pan-European political movement and predated the EU's institutional ancestors by decades. This 1984 issue was struck as a private fantasy piece — the ECU was at that point a genuine European Currency Unit used in interbank settlement, but the Paneuropa-Union had no issuing authority whatsoever. Pieces like this occupy an awkward taxonomic category: neither medal nor legal tender, catalogued under Krause's X-numbers precisely because no other classification fits.