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10 écu - Bergerac
| Issuer | Banque des Collectionneurs et Commercants Bergeracois pour l'Europe |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | ECU (1979-1999) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a richly coloured still-life vignette celebrating the agriculture of the Périgord region: two bottles of local wine including a Monbazillac, a wine glass, bunches of grapes, chestnuts, foie gras on a platter, mushrooms, and a group of geese, all arranged before a turreted château in a pastoral landscape. A ghostly portrait vignette of Edmond Rostand appears at the lower left alongside the Bergerac civic coat of arms and a perched bird. The Crédit Agricole logo appears in roundels at the lower left and lower right corners. A disclaimer text panel in italic script runs along the lower edge. Denomination panels reading 70 Francs appear at upper left and upper right. |
| Reverse lettering | 70 Francs EMISSION DES COLLECTIONNEURS BERGERACOIS 70 Francs Edmond ROSTAND L'AGRICULTURE DU PERIGORD CES BILLETS NE CONSTITUENT EN AUCUNE MANIERE UNE MONNAIE AYANT COURS LEGAL, MAIS SONT UNIQUEMENT DES BONS REMBOURSABLES AU PLUS TARD LE 22 AVRIL 1995 AUPRES DU CREDIT AGRICOLE DE BERGERACET DESTINES A ASSURER LA PROMOTION DE L'ECU AU SEIN DE L'EUROPE. LA VALIDITE DE CES BONS EST LIMITEE A L'ENCEINTE DE LA MANIFESTATION COMMERCIALE DE BERGERAC ET POUR LA PERIODE DU 03 AU 15 AVRIL 1995 VEYLL CA |
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This is a collector's scrip note, not a circulating instrument — the issuing body, despite its formal-sounding name, was a private collectors' and merchants' association operating in Bergerac, Dordogne. The "écu" denomination places it squarely in the early 1990s French regional scrip movement, which briefly flourished around the time the European Union was finalizing the Maastricht Treaty and the future of national currencies was genuinely uncertain. Dozens of local groups issued similar fantasy ecus across France during this period, some as promotional pieces, others as limited collectibles with no transactional intent whatsoever.
Veyll handling both design and engraving is unusual — most comparable pieces from this wave outsourced at least one function.