Ecu - Phase 1 de la compétition graphique argent

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.