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20 ECU de Roanne [42]
| Issuer | Ville de Roanne |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a stylized plate or dish resting at the base of a fluted Doric column, upon the capital of which stands a winged griffin passant, rendered in relief. In the lower portion of the field, a circular medallion bearing the ECU currency symbol is prominently displayed. The surrounding legend, arranged along the periphery of the coin, reads NEUVIEME FESTIVAL DES ARTS DE LA TABLE, commemorating the ninth Festival of Table Arts held in Roanne. |
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| Obverse lettering | NEUVIEME FESTIVAL DES ARTS DE LA TABLE |
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Roanne's municipal ECU issues belong to the wave of French local authority coinages produced in the early 1990s, when hundreds of communes, départements, and chambers of commerce minted ECU-denominated pieces ahead of anticipated monetary union. The program was partly promotional, partly numismatic — cities competed for collector attention while also staking a claim to European identity before the franc disappeared.
Roanne, a textile and industrial town on the Loire in the Loire département, had no particular monetary history of its own. The bracket notation [42] references the département number, standard on French local ECU issues to distinguish the dozens of municipalities sharing similar series formats.