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0 Euro - Alpenzoo Innsbruck-Tirol
| Issuer | Austria |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a fox in the foreground, a wolf to the right, and a badger at lower right, all set against an Alpine mountain backdrop rendered in warm purplish-brown tones. The large numeral '0' appears to the left centre, flanked by the EU flag and the series date '2024-4' at upper left, with a ring of twelve gold stars and a guilloche underprint framing the composition. The 'EURO SOUVENIR' logotype is printed at lower centre, accompanied by a facsimile signature reading R. Faille, C.E.O., and the serial number prefix NEKX at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Colour-shifting ink |
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The Alpenzoo in Innsbruck holds a specific distinction: it sits at roughly 750 metres above sea level, making it the highest-altitude zoo in Europe, and specialises exclusively in alpine fauna — no lions, no elephants. The commemorative zero-euro souvenir note program, run through licensed distributors with Oberthur Fiduciaire handling production, has turned these into a minor collecting category of their own since the format launched around 2015. No legal tender status, no redemption obligation — the face value is purely nominal.
Oberthur's inclusion of a genuine security thread and colour-shifting ink on a note worth nothing monetarily reflects how the program sells the format itself as the product.