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10 pives
| Issuer | Pive (monnaie complémentaire comtoise) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 10 Euros 10 EUR = CHF 9.16 |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of hikers walking through a dense forest, rendered in a photographic style with selective colour accents in orange and green against a monochrome grey-green underprint. Large orange numeral '10' at lower left; a pale circular watermark-style emblem appears at bottom centre. Denomination and title inscribed at upper left and upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 PIVES 10-P 10 |
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The pive is a complementary currency launched in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France, part of a broader French movement toward local exchange systems tied to ethical consumption and short supply chains. The name derives from the regional Franc-Comtois word for a pine cone — a deliberate nod to local identity in a region that lost its administrative autonomy when Franche-Comté was merged into the new Bourgogne-Franche-Comté super-region in 2016, the year before this note was issued.
Like most French monnaies locales of this period, the pive operates under the framework established by the 2014 Social and Solidarity Economy law, which gave complementary currencies formal legal standing for the first time in France.