50 cents de Seurre [21]

Seurre is a small Burgundian town on the Saône, and its 1997 brass jeton falls into a well-documented French tradition of municipally issued emergency or commemorative fractional tokens that persisted long after such pieces had any practical monetary function. By the late twentieth century these were produced almost exclusively for local festivals, markets, or numismatic societies — circulating briefly as fair currency before ending up in collector envelopes.