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ECU Europa
| Issuer | Monnaie de Paris |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Currency | ECU (1979-1999) |
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| Reverse lettering | ECU 1993 |
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| Mintage | 1993 - Monnaie de Paris - 45,000 |
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The 1993 ECU Europa issue was struck during the ratification turbulence surrounding the Maastricht Treaty, which had narrowly survived a Danish referendum rejection in 1992 and a razor-thin French "petit oui" before entering force in November 1993. The Monnaie de Paris produced several ECU medallic issues through this period as much for political signaling as for the collector market — the ECU itself was never legal tender in France but carried official institutional weight.
Catalogued under the X# prefix, it falls within the medallic and token classification rather than the regular coin series.