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1 euro de Vienne [38]
| Issuer | Comité d'Organisation des Échanges Internationaux, Vienne |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 1 Euro (1 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central depiction of La Pyramide de Vienne, a well-preserved Roman funerary monument comprising a tall tapering obelisk-like spire rising from an arched base structure, rendered in fine relief. The legend LA PYRAMIDE appears above the monument to the left, with VIENNE in large lettering below it, followed by Isère and France in smaller text. To the right of the monument, the inscription VILLE EUROPEENNE is accompanied by a partial arc of twelve five-pointed stars, referencing the European ideal. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA PYRAMIDE VIENNE Isère France VILLE EUROPEENNE |
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One of hundreds of local euro precursor tokens issued across France in the late 1990s under the COEI framework, these pieces allowed municipalities to rehearse a cashless-adjacent exchange economy ahead of the single currency's 1999 introduction. Vienne, a mid-sized Isère commune better known for its Roman ruins and jazz festival, joined dozens of French towns in commissioning brass tokens denominated in "euros" before the official coinage existed at all — a peculiar administrative footnote to monetary union.