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1 Euro - Narbonne
| Issuer | Ville de Narbonne |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | A detailed architectural view of the Palais des Archevêques (Archbishop's Palace) and the Cathedral of Narbonne occupies the central field, depicting the medieval stone towers of the palace at left and the soaring Gothic flying buttresses and spire of the cathedral at right. Two birds are visible in the upper field above the buildings. The legend 'PALAIS des ARCHEVEQUES et CATHEDRALE' runs along the left and right rim in a curved arrangement. |
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| Mintage | 1997 |
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Narbonne's 1997 euro was part of the wave of local "euro des villes" issues that flooded France ahead of the single currency's 1999 introduction — a marketing exercise as much as a monetary experiment, with municipalities issuing brass tokens redeemable at participating local businesses for a limited period. Narbonne, once the first Roman colony in Gaul founded in 118 BC and for centuries the administrative capital of Gallia Narbonensis, leaned hard into that antiquity for civic branding purposes.