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20 Euros - Tours and Touraine Richelieu
| Issuer | N.A.F.S.E.P. (Nouvelle Association Française pour les Solidarity Échanges en Pays) |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Type | Local coin |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Cardinal Richelieu facing three-quarters to the right, rendered in fine relief after a classical portrait. A ring of twelve five-pointed stars frames the lower portion of the field, with the inscription 'N.A.F.S.E.P.' appearing to the left of the bust. The event dates '11 OCT. 11 NOV. 1997' arc along the left rim, and the name 'RICHELIEU' is inscribed in bold letters along the lower border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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N.A.F.S.E.P. was one of several French regional associations that briefly flourished in the late 1990s issuing local exchange scrip denominated in "euros" well before the single currency formally existed — a deliberate provocation aimed at accelerating monetary union sentiment at the grassroots level. These pieces occupy an odd juridical space: not legal tender, not purely medallic, but traded within defined geographic networks as functional exchange instruments.
The Richelieu connection places this squarely in Indre-et-Loire, the cardinal's home territory and the town bearing his name since Louis XIII granted it commune status in 1631.