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0 Euro - 13 - Marseille, gare Saint-Charles
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents the neoclassical façade of Marseille's Gare Saint-Charles with its monumental staircase and flanking palm trees, rendered in purple intaglio-style line engraving. The large guilloché numeral "0" appears to the left, alongside the EU flag and date "2022-4". Stars and the vertical "EUROSOUVENIR" underprint border the right edge. |
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| Reverse description | Six vignettes of celebrated European landmarks are arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis. The Mona Lisa portrait appears at right. Denomination "0€" is printed in the upper left, with each monument's name inscribed beneath its respective vignette. |
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Euro Souvenir notes are a private collectible scheme launched in 2015, sold at tourist sites across Europe with face values of zero — legal in the EU provided they cannot be confused with genuine currency, hence the "0 Euro" denomination and the deliberate overprinting of commemorative text. Oberthur Fiduciaire, which prints a substantial portion of actual euro banknotes for the Banque de France, produces these on genuine security paper with the same intaglio-feel surface, which routinely fools people handling them for the first time.
Gare Saint-Charles is the principal railway terminus of Marseille, opened in 1848 and reconstructed in the early twentieth century. The monumental external staircase, added in 1925, remains one of the more photographed pieces of civic infrastructure in southern France.