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1 Euro - Levallois

Issuer Ville de Levallois-Perret
Year 1998
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Composition Copper (copper alloy)
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Obverse lettering VILLE DE LEVALLOIS
HAUTS-DE-SEINE
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Mintage 1998
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Levallois-Perret was one of dozens of French municipalities that issued local emergency currency during the 1997–1998 transport strikes and social disruptions, part of a broader wave of ville-monnaie schemes that briefly revived a tradition last seen during the First World War franc shortages. These pieces were never legal tender under French law but circulated within participating local businesses by merchant agreement.

The issuing authority here is the municipal government itself — an unusual arrangement for post-war Western Europe.

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