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20 Lur
| Issuer | Bank Broadel Breizh |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Size | 202 x 103 mm |
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| Obverse description | Circular vignette at left with photographic portrait of Breton poet Roparz Hemon within a Celtic knotwork border, set against an antique cartographic underprint of Brittany with sailing ships. Numeral 20 at right within a Celtic rope medallion. Issuer name at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Large photographic portrait of Roparz Hemon at left against the Breton flag (Gwenn-ha-du) as underprint, with a Celtic triskelion vignette at centre. Numeral 20 within a Celtic rope medallion at upper right, and a cautionary text in Breton script at lower right. Three facsimile signatures at centre. |
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The Bank Broadel Breizh — the "National Bank of Brittany" — was not a real central bank. It was a regionalist cultural project, and the Lur was a proposed currency for an independent Brittany that never achieved political or legal standing. Notes like this one were produced as advocacy objects and collector items, circulating among Breton autonomy movement supporters rather than in any commercial economy.
The Lur took its name from an old Breton word for money. No exchange rate was ever established, no redemption mechanism existed.