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0 Euro - Alpha - Parc animalier
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs (UEJF) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of two wolves from the Alpha Parc Animalier wildlife park in Saint-Martin-Vésubie, Alpes-Maritimes, rendered in intaglio-style engraving against a guilloche underprint. Denomination "0 EURO" appears at lower right, with issuer inscription "ALPHA PARC ANIMALIER" above and "EUROSOUVENIRS" legend with serial year "2018 - 1" below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The zero euro souvenir note program, administered by the Union Européenne des Jeunes Filatelistes under the Eurosouvenirs brand, launched in 2015 as a formally licensed scheme — Oberthur holds the exclusive printing contract, and each note carries a genuine EURion constellation and holographic strip precisely because the European Central Bank permitted their production on condition they be uncounterfeitable by casual means. They are legal in design, worthless by definition, and taxed as collectibles rather than currency.
Animal park-themed issues are among the highest-volume sellers in the series, which has made them paradoxically less interesting to serious collectors than the low-print-run municipal editions.