Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
10 ECU - Seville Expo '92
| Uitgever | Spain |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1992 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | 10 ECU (10 XEU) |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central vignette of a twelve-pointed star enclosing an ornate decorative design, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. To the right, a white dove on a pink background. The note was issued as a specimen souvenir in connection with the European Community Pavilion at Expo '92 in Seville. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | THE PAVILION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY - EXPO'92 SEVILLA. THIS SPECIMEN ECU-NOTE IS SPONSORED BY EUFISERV. |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
| Varianten | Log in om details te zien |
| Opmerkingen |
The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in Spain or anywhere else. It existed as a basket currency and accounting unit within the European Monetary System, which made any physical ECU banknote a novelty item rather than a functioning monetary instrument. Spain issued this piece to coincide with the Seville World Exposition of 1992, a year the country was aggressively positioning itself as a modern European nation — the Barcelona Olympics ran the same summer.
Giesecke & Devrient's involvement signals this was produced to a high security standard despite its commemorative nature, which is worth noting given that several other ECU fantasy notes of the period were printed on lightweight stock by minor commercial printers.