Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
ECU Konrad Adenauer
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Germany |
|---|---|
| Year | 1992 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central field features a raised outline map of Germany set against a stylized map of Europe. The legend DEUTSCHLAND arcs along the upper rim and EUROPA along the lower rim, both in raised Latin capitals. Two small five-pointed stars flank the central design at the mid-field level. The denomination ECU appears in large raised lettering at the center of the German map. The coin has a plain raised border encircling the entire design. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | KONRAD ADENAUER WM 1967-1992 |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The ECU coinage issued by West Germany — and after reunification, the Federal Republic — occupied an odd institutional space: legal tender nowhere, commemorative issue everywhere. These pieces were struck as collector items referencing the European Currency Unit, the accounting currency that preceded the euro but never circulated in anyone's pocket. Adenauer was a logical honoree; his chancellorship from 1949 to 1963 had anchored West Germany's integration into Western Europe, including the 1957 Treaty of Rome.
The ECU denomination itself was pegged to a weighted basket of member-state currencies, revised most significantly in 1989 when the Spanish peseta and Portuguese escudo were added to the calculation.