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ECU - Sete
| Issuer | Amicale Numismatique du Midi |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Composition | Copper-nickel |
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| Obverse description | A large three-masted sailing ship under full sail depicted in right profile, navigating through choppy seas with clouds in the background. The vessel is rendered in fine detail, showing rigging, hull portholes, and billowing sails. The legend 'ECU DE SETE' arcs across the upper field, while the date '5 MARS 1995' appears in the lower exergue. The engraver's signature 'C. CARDOT' is visible in the lower right field, along with the issuer's initials 'FIA' at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | ECU DE SETE 5 MARS 1995 FIA C. CARDOT . Gr |
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The Amicale Numismatique du Midi issued this piece as a local ecu — a category of privately produced trade tokens that proliferated across France in the early 1990s following the broader European ecu's rise as a parallel accounting currency. Dozens of regional numismatic clubs and municipal associations struck their own ecu-denominated pieces, partly as collectibles and partly as a small act of regional identity before the euro made the entire ecu concept obsolete within a decade.
Sète — the Hérault port city built on a narrow strip between the Étang de Thau and the Mediterranean — was a natural subject for the Midi club, which drew its membership from the Languedoc region. These local issues were struck in very limited quantities and rarely circulated outside the issuing association's own events.