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ECU Flying Scotsman
| Issuer | Scotland (United Kingdom) |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 1 ECU (1 XEU) |
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| Obverse description | The central field depicts two allegorical female figures flanking a globe showing the European continent, with a radiant sunburst rising behind them; the figure to the left is seated and holds a staff or sceptre, while the figure to the right stands in flowing drapery. A arc of five-pointed stars adorns the lower portion of the globe, referencing the European Community. The peripheral legend reads 'EUROPE' to the upper left and 'EUROPA' to the upper right, separated by a floral ornament, with 'SCOTLAND' inscribed along the lower border, all within a milled outer rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Flying Scotsman ECU was part of a short-lived British experiment in the early 1990s in which the Royal Mint produced a series of ECU-denominated collector pieces — not legal tender in any conventional sense, but politically timed to keep Britain nominally engaged with European monetary developments following the humiliation of Black Wednesday in September 1992, when sterling was ejected from the Exchange Rate Mechanism. Scotland-specific issues within the series gave the program a regional dimension that was largely marketing-driven but reflected genuine devolutionary pressure of the period.
The Flying Scotsman locomotive itself entered service in 1923, the first year of the newly grouped LNER.