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1 ECU - Paneuropean Union Charles the Great
| Issuer | Paneuropean Union |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 € 1972 CONFŒDERATIO EUROPÆA |
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| Mintage | 1972 - Prooflike - 10,000 |
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The Paneuropean Union, founded by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi in 1923, was one of the earliest organized movements advocating for a unified European federation. By 1972, the project had long outlasted its interwar optimism, and this ECU issue — struck well before the European Currency Unit was formally adopted by the EEC in 1979 — represents the organization's deliberate attempt to preempt and shape the vocabulary of European monetary integration. Charlemagne was a calculated choice: a figure claimed simultaneously by French and German national traditions, making him politically neutral in a way few historical figures could manage.
These pieces carry the X# prefix in Krause precisely because no government authorized them — struck as fantasy or semi-official issues outside any sovereign minting framework.