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0 Euro Abbaye de Silvacane
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a colour view of the Romanesque Abbaye de Silvacane reflected in a foreground pool, set within a fine guilloche underprint in rose and lavender tones. The large numeral '0' in dark violet occupies the left field, flanked by the EU flag and a ring of gold stars. Lower right bears the 'EURO SOUVENIR' logotype and the signatory's facsimile signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DASBRANENBUGERTOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LATOUREIFFEL SAGRADAFAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The zero euro souvenir note program, launched commercially around 2015, is issued by Euro Souvenir — a private French company — and licensed by the European Central Bank, which permits the denomination precisely because no legal tender obligation attaches to it. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them to genuine banknote specification, same security paper and intaglio work used on circulating issues, which is the point: the tactile quality is the product.
Silvacane, a Cistercian abbey in Provence founded in 1144, has been state-owned since the Revolution. The note exists because the site needed a gift-shop revenue stream.