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100 Francs / 15 Ecus Charlemagne
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Value | 100 Francs = 15 ECU (100 FRF) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued as part of France's bimetallic commemorative program that ran alongside the broader European ECU coinage initiative, this piece was struck the same year the Schengen Convention came into force — a pointed choice for a coin invoking Charlemagne, whose Frankish empire is routinely cited by European federalists as the original blueprint for continental unity. The dual denomination reflects the ECU's status at the time: a real unit of account used in EC financial transactions, not merely a token.
Charlemagne's monetary reform of 793–794 AD, which standardized the silver denier across his empire, is the historical anchor the Monnaie de Paris was clearly referencing.