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2 Muse - Monnaie à Usage Solidaire et Écologique pont Cessart de Saumur
| Issuer | Muse - Monnaie à Usage Solidaire et Écologique (Saumur) |
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| Year | 2019-2020 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Watercolour vignette of the Cessart Bridge in Saumur as seen from the Loire, a 277 m, 12-arch structure completed in 1770. A female profile with stylised triskel-shaped hair appears to the right. Denomination numeral '2' printed at upper left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 2 N° MUSE 2 |
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The MUSE — Monnaie à Usage Solidaire et Écologique — is one of several dozen local complementary currencies that emerged across France following the 2014 law on the Social and Solidarity Economy, which gave formal legal recognition to monnaies locales for the first time. Saumur's version, anchored to the Loire Valley, is exchangeable at par with the euro through a network of participating merchants and associations who commit to ethical and ecological sourcing criteria.
The denomination name "pont Cessart" references the 18th-century stone bridge spanning the Loire at Saumur, built between 1756 and 1838 — one of the longest bridges in France at the time of its completion.