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1 Ecu - Vias
| Issuer | Europark (Vias, France) |
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| Currency | ECU (1979-1999) |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized clown face in full frontal view, rendered with fine line engraving, featuring a large round nose, wide smiling mouth, and curly hair framing the face. A circular legend surrounds the central device, reading 'BANQUE' along the upper arc and 'EUROPARK' along the lower arc in bold raised lettering. The design is contained within a plain raised rim. |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears the large numeral '1' above the denomination 'ECU' in bold raised lettering, occupying the majority of the field. A circular peripheral legend reads 'non valable les soirées de promotions' and 'Vias plage' arranged around the rim. The entire design is enclosed within a plain raised rim. |
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Europark Vias is a large holiday camping complex on the Hérault coast, and like several French vacation parks from the 1980s and 1990s, it issued its own brass token currency to keep spending on-site — a practice that also simplified accounting and discouraged guests from taking cash offsite. The "Ecu" denomination was a fashionable naming choice for French local tokens of that period, trading on nostalgia for the pre-Revolutionary currency rather than carrying any official monetary status.