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25 ECU Tower Bridge
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Allegorical figures of Neptune and Europa flank a central globe bearing a map of Europe, symbolizing the unity of the continent. Twelve five-pointed stars encircle the globe in reference to the European Community emblem. A continuous legend runs along the outer edge, with a small floral motif serving as a separator between the English and Latin designations of the continent. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in Britain, which made these issues an odd political gesture from a government that had just been forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in September 1992. Black Wednesday, as it became known, cost the Treasury an estimated £3.3 billion in a single day. Issuing commemorative ECU pieces the following year carried an irony that few in Whitehall seemed eager to acknowledge.
The series quietly ended as the EU moved toward the physical euro, which Britain declined to adopt.