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2 Euros - Tours and Touraine Loches
| Issuer | N.A.F.S.E.P. (Loches) |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a detailed depiction of the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) of Tours, shown in three-quarter perspective with its classical French architecture, set against an outline map of the Touraine region in the background, with a large tree to the right. The denomination '2 euro' arcs across the upper field in large letters, while 'de TOURS et de TOURAINE' curves along the lower border. The engravers' credits 'G. BUQUOY / D'APRÈS C. CARDOT' appear in small letters in the lower central field. |
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N.A.F.S.E.P. — the Nationale Association Française des Syndicats d'Employeurs du Paiement — issued emergency local scrip tokens through affiliated regional chambers during the mid-1990s as French towns experimented with loyalty-adjacent commerce bons ahead of the euro transition. The Loches issue is one of the more obscure provincial entries in that program, tied to the Touraine's commercial district rather than any municipal authority.
These pieces circulated locally as merchant tokens redeemable within participating businesses, not as currency in any legal sense.