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1 ECU - Strasbourg
| Issuer | Ville de Strasbourg |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | ECU (1979-1999) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A stylized dynamic figure in the center of the field, rendered in a modernist artistic style, set against a geometric background composed of rectangular panels with varied textures. Five stars are distributed around the figure, referencing European symbolism. The legend '1 ECU DE STRASBOURG' arcs across the upper and lower portions of the coin, while the dates and event inscription 'FOIRE EUROPÉENNE 95' and 'DU 1ER AU 11 SEPT.' appear in the right field. The engraver's signature 'F.Steiner' is visible in the lower left field. |
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Strasbourg's municipal ECU issues were part of a broader wave of local authority coinages produced across France and the Benelux in the late 1980s and early 1990s, exploiting a legal grey area that permitted non-monetary commemorative tokens denominated in ECU — the European Currency Unit — provided they did not compete directly with legal tender. The ECU itself was a basket currency, never physically minted by any central bank, which made it a convenient vehicle for exactly this kind of civic promotional issue.
Strasbourg's choice to participate was hardly accidental: the city hosts the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, giving the ECU denomination a local political logic that most issuing municipalities lacked.