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10 Muse - Monnaie à Usage Solidaire et Écologique vélos
| Issuer | MUSE (Monnaie à Usage Solidaire et Écologique) |
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| Year | 2012 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Watercolour vignette of three figures, including a child, riding bicycles against a setting sun. At left, a female profile with stylised hair rendered in the form of a triskel. Denomination numeral "10" appears at upper left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Female profile with stylised triskel-shaped hair at left, with a wind farm vignette at right. Reverse bears a dated validation stamp area; the note is subject to an annual 2% demurrage charge (the "Fonte" procedure) redeemed by affixing a stamp purchased at face value of 2%, extending validity by one year. |
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MUSE is a French complementary currency launched in the Hérault department, designed to circulate locally and encourage spending at participating businesses committed to social and ecological criteria. The "vélos" denomination — cycling — is one of several thematic units in the system, each named after a local or cultural reference rather than a numeric value, which sidesteps the psychological anchoring that comes with conventional denominations.
Complementary currencies of this type operate under French monetary law provisions that tolerate local exchange systems provided they don't claim legal tender status. The 2012 vintage places this squarely in the early wave of post-2008 solidarity currency experiments that proliferated across southwestern France.