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5 ECU Pau Casals
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 5 ECU (5 XEU) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1876 PAU CASALS 1973 |
| Edge | Plain |
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The ECU — European Currency Unit — was never legal tender in Spain but was issued by several member states throughout the 1990s as a quasi-official collector currency, anticipating the euro that would follow. Spain's cultural tribute series used the denomination to honor figures of international stature, and Casals was a pointed choice: the cellist had lived in self-imposed exile from Franco's Spain for decades, refusing to perform in any country that recognized the regime.
He died in 1973, two years before Franco, never returning to Catalonia.