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1 ECU - Roanne
| Issuer | Ville de Roanne |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Weight | 10 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the crowned municipal coat of arms of Roanne, flanked by laurel branches and surmounted by a scroll bearing the civic motto. The denomination numeral '1' appears to the left of the shield, with 'E.C.U.' to the right. The issuing authority legend 'VILLE DE ROANNE' arcs along the upper periphery, while the event date '1-9 OCTOBRE 1995' is inscribed along the lower periphery. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Roanne's ecu was one of hundreds of locally issued French emergency trade tokens that proliferated in the mid-1990s, a phenomenon driven partly by civic promotion and partly by the commercial logic of local currency schemes that kept spending within a town's retail network. The practice had medieval precedent — the ecu itself was a 13th-century French coin — but these 1990s municipal issues had no legal tender status and circulated entirely on local goodwill.
France's entry into the euro convergence process effectively killed the movement. Most were withdrawn before 2002.