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ECU - Servus Europa Karl Kraus
| Issuer | Austria |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse lettering | AUSTRIA CHI SERVUS EUROPA |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Karl Kraus spent decades dismantling the pretensions of Viennese intellectual life through his one-man journal Die Fackel, which he wrote almost entirely himself from 1911 until his death in 1936. Issuing his likeness on a commemorative ECU — the European Currency Unit, a basket currency that existed only as an accounting instrument and never as circulating money — carries an irony he would not have let pass quietly.