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Ecu - Phase 1 de la compétition graphique argent
| Issuer | Institut de Promotion Numismatique |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Diameter | 34 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '1' dominates the central field, flanked on either side by ornate decorative scrollwork motifs incorporating laurel branches, rendered in fine relief. Above the numeral, the word 'PHASE' is inscribed across the upper field. Below, a two-line French legend reads 'DE LA COMPETITION / GRAPHIQUE POUR L'' followed by the stylised lowercase 'ecu' logotype in large characters at the bottom of the field. The issuer's abbreviation 'ipn' appears in the lower exergue, while the bilingual legend 'THE GRAPHIC COMPETITION' runs along the right-hand border. |
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The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in the conventional sense, existing from 1979 as a basket currency and accounting unit underpinning the European Monetary System. France's Institut de Promotion Numismatique issued ECU-denominated collector pieces throughout the early 1990s, capitalizing on the currency's symbolic momentum ahead of Maastricht. This piece commemorates the first phase of a design competition, suggesting the coin itself was part of a broader public engagement campaign around European monetary identity at a politically charged moment — just a year after Danish voters initially rejected the Maastricht Treaty in referendum.