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20 ECU Carl Von Linne
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse lettering | SVERIGE 1995 20 ECU |
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| Edge | Lettered: EJ LAGLIGT BETALNINGSMEDEL (not legal tender) |
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The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in Sweden, yet Sveriges Riksbank issued collector pieces denominated in it throughout the 1990s as a quiet gesture toward potential EU monetary integration. Sweden joined the EU in January 1995, the same year this piece was struck, but would later vote against adopting the euro in a 2003 referendum.
Linnaeus remains the choice here for obvious reasons: his 1753 Species Plantarum and the binomial nomenclature system he formalized are still the operative framework for botanical classification worldwide.