1 Euro - Havre Piedfort

Piéforts are struck at double the normal planchet thickness as prooflike presentation pieces, but this example is an outlier — struck in aluminium bronze rather than the bimetallic construction of the circulating euro prototype it references, because the euro had not yet been formally adopted for circulation. France was still two years from locking in conversion rates under the Maastricht framework when this piece was produced.