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| Issuer | European Association for Euro Banknotes (NEAE) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Reverse description | Lilac guilloche underprint with vignettes of six iconic European monuments: the Brandenburg Gate, Torre de Belém, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis. A vignette of the Mona Lisa appears at right, with the '0 EURO SOUVENIR' logotype and printer's imprint at lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ TORREDEBELEM DASBRANENBUGERTOR COLOSSEO LATOUREIFFEL SAGRADAFAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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These zero-euro souvenir notes are produced by the EAEB (European Association for Euro Banknotes) — a private French company with no monetary authority — and sold directly to tourists and collectors. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them to genuine euro-series security standards, including the correct paper feel and UV-reactive ink, which is precisely what makes them interesting as objects: all the machinery of legitimate currency production applied to something with no face value whatsoever.
This example marks the centenary of the Austrian Republic proclaimed in November 1918 following the collapse of the Habsburg Empire.