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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 837689, member: 39"]By the way, while your Dutch "Liberation Anniversary" piece was not legal tender, it was at least made by the Royal Dutch Mint (KNM). See the mercury staff which is the Utrecht mintmark, and the bow/arrow, sign of the mintmaster C. van Draanen. So it could be worth a little more than "private" ECU medals ... What is also interesting is that yours was issued in 1995, possibly in April/May since 5 May is Bevrijdingsdag/Liberation Day in NL. In the very same year, the ECU became history: On 15-16 December 1995, the Council agreed on the name "euro" for the new currency. By the way, I just checked, and the Belgian ECU coins that I mentioned before ceased to legal tender on 1 January 1999 (when the euro was launched). As for Gibraltar pieces, the Schön catalog lists them too, and says that the "Gibraltar ECU" was an official second(ary) currency there. Its value was the same as the official ECU rate. Guess that worked the same way as for Isle of Man euro "coins" issued in 1996-98: The value of 1 IoM Euro on day X corresponded to whatever the ECU was worth, in pound sterling, at the stock exchange in London on that day. Christian[/QUOTE]