20 ECUs - Manosque

Manosque issued this piece as part of the wave of French municipal ECU tokens that proliferated in the early-to-mid 1990s, when dozens of towns exploited the pre-euro enthusiasm for ECU-denominated collector pieces. The legal framework was loose enough that communes could issue these without central bank authorization, treating them as medals rather than currency — a distinction that kept them off the Banque de France's radar while still circulating locally in some cases.

Manosque itself is better known as the birthplace of Jean Giono than for any monetary tradition.