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5 euro de Fréjus [83]
| Issuer | Ville de Fréjus |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse lettering | FORVM IVLII LA PORTE DOREE LES THERMES |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Fréjus issued this piece in 1997 as part of the wave of French municipal emergency coinage that proliferated in the mid-1990s, when local governments and commercial associations exploited a legal gray area to circulate town-specific currency redeemable at participating merchants. The practice drew repeated scrutiny from the Banque de France, which had never formally sanctioned it.
The [83] designation is simply the département number for Var — administrative shorthand that doubles as a collector sorting reference for the hundreds of similar issues from across France during this period.