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50 euros Bisontins Proudhon
| Issuer | Crédit Mutuel Doubs / Ville de Besançon |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Value | 50 Euros (50 EUR) |
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| Reverse description | Yellow and blue guilloche-style background with a band of European Union stars running vertically along the left margin, overlaid with the repeated diagonal legend 'Euros Bisontins'. The central field contains a white panel with printed text in French outlining payment instructions and a promotional prize competition associated with the Euro bisontin local currency scheme. Sponsor and institutional logos — Europe 2, Crédit Mutuel, Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie du Doubs, Ministère de l'Économie des Finances et de l'Industrie, Trésor Public, and Besançon — are arranged along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Euros Bisontins Moyens de paiement Il y aura des chéquiers spécifiques Euros à libeller exclusivement en Euros. Vous pourrez ouvrir un compte en Euros au guichet de votre banque habituelle à partir du 1er janvier 1999. Jouez & gagnez avec l'Euro bisontin! 200 Euros Bisontins récoltés: vous gagnez une place de cinéma. entre 200 et 500 EB: vous gagnez un convertisseur électronique. entre 500 et 1000 EB: vous gagnez un compact-disc. Pour bénéficier de ces cadeaux, rendez-vous dans une agence du Crédit Mutuel à Besançon pendant tout le mois de Novembre 98. Picture-it! Imedia Europe 2 Crédit Mutuel Doubs Ministère de l'économie des Finances et de l'industrie Trésor Public Besançon |
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The bisontins were a short-lived local complementary currency experiment launched in Besançon in 1998, backed by Crédit Mutuel Doubs and the municipality. The scheme drew deliberately on the memory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the anarchist economist born in Besançon in 1809, whose mutualist theories about interest-free credit exchanges gave the project its intellectual cover — whether or not the participating merchants cared much about the philosophy.
Printed locally by Imedia Europe 2, the notes never achieved wide uptake and the system folded without significant commercial penetration. Surviving examples are uncommon simply because the total issue was small, not because of any redemption or destruction program.