10 ECU Aragón

The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in Spain but existed as a basket currency used for accounting within the European Monetary System. Spain's regional ECU series, issued through the early 1990s, was a political gesture as much as a numismatic one, each coin honoring an autonomous community during a period when regional identity politics were running particularly hot in Madrid. Aragón, historically the seat of a medieval Crown that at its peak controlled territories from the Iberian Peninsula to Sicily, was a natural inclusion.

These pieces were sold directly to collectors and saw no circulation whatsoever.