1 Euro - Rennes

One of hundreds of local "euro" tokens issued by French municipalities in the mid-1990s ahead of the single currency's 1999 launch. Rennes participated in a coordinated trial campaign — organized partly through the Fédération Française du Commerce — that briefly allowed these pieces to circulate as fractional trade currency within participating shops. They were never legal tender, but retailers accepted them voluntarily, making the experiment one of the more pragmatic dry runs for public familiarity with euro-denominated pricing before the real coins arrived.