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0 Euro - Ávila Ciudad Amurallada
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a vignette of the medieval walled city of Ávila, with the Ávila Gate and the Cathedral of the Saviour rendered in the centre against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination '0 EURO' appears in bold lettering to the right, accompanied by the EuroSouvenir programme logo and a row of five stars at the lower border. The inscription 'ÁVILA CIUDAD AMURALLADA' is printed across the upper portion of the note, with the series reference '2025 - 4' and the signature of R. Faille, C.E.O. of VEEX, also present. |
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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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EuroSouvenir notes are a French-driven commercial scheme launched around 2015, sold at tourist sites across Europe as legal-tender-adjacent novelties — they carry a face value of zero but are manufactured to genuine banknote specification by licensed security printers, Oberthur among the most frequently contracted. The arrangement requires the issuing attraction or municipality to purchase a minimum print run, making each release a small commercial gamble on visitor footfall.
Ávila's medieval walls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985, are among the best-preserved Romanesque military fortifications in Europe — roughly 2.5 kilometres of granite curtain wall with 88 towers, begun in the late eleventh century under Alfonso VI.