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5 Lur
| Issuer | Bank Broadel Breizh (Banque Nationale de Bretagne) |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Anne de Bretagne positioned at right, accompanied by a white ermine motif and heraldic coats of arms representing the nine historic countries of Brittany. Bilingual inscriptions in Breton and French appear across the face, with the issuer name BANK BROADEL BREIZH in bold letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | Pemp lur Ugent real 5 lur an Dugez Anna Vreizh BANK BROADEL BREIZH |
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Bank Broadel Breizh — the "National Bank of Brittany" — never existed as a legal monetary authority. This note is a fantasy piece issued by the Breton cultural-nationalist movement in 1992, denominated in "Lur," a currency unit with no legal tender status anywhere. The Lur was a deliberate political fiction: the word derives from Breton for "earth" or "land," and the denomination was chosen to assert a distinct Breton identity at a moment when European monetary union was accelerating debates about regional versus national sovereignty.
Rolland's involvement situates this within a broader tradition of activist souvenir issues produced across stateless-nation movements in the 1980s and 1990s. Collect it as ephemera, not currency.