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10 Euros - Tours and Touraine Loches
| Issuer | N.A.F.S.E.P. (Loches) |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Local coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The aluminium-nickel bronze centre features a finely engraved perspective view of the Tours City Hall (Hôtel de Ville de Tours), a classical French baroque building with a prominent clock tower, flanked by a tree to the right and set against a stylised outline map of the Touraine region. The denomination 10 euro is inscribed in large characters across the upper portion of the copper-nickel outer ring, with the legend de TOURS et de TOURAINE continuing around the lower arc. The engraver's credits G. BUQUOY and D'APRÈS C. CARDOT appear in the lower centre field of the coin. |
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N.A.F.S.E.P. — the Nationale Association Française de Sauvegarde des Échanges de Proximité — was one of dozens of French local exchange associations that briefly flourished in the 1990s under the influence of the SEL (Système d'Échange Local) movement, itself modeled loosely on Canadian LETS networks. These privately issued bimetallic pieces were struck as tradeable scrip within participating merchant networks, not by any state authority. The legal tolerance for such issues in France was narrow and contested.
Loches, the issuing town, sits in the southern Indre-et-Loire and gave its name to this regional variant within what was a broader Tours and Touraine circulation zone.