0 Euro Baie de Somme

Euro Souvenir launched its 0 Euro collector note program in 2015, with the Baie de Somme among the earliest regional issues in the series. Oberthur Fiduciaire produced these to genuine banknote specification — UV ink, intaglio-adjacent printing quality — deliberately so. The legal tender value of zero was the point: it allowed free distribution and sale without triggering currency regulations, while the production standards gave collectors something that handled like real money.

The Baie de Somme is a nature reserve and tidal estuary in northern Picardy, known for its seal colony — an unusual enough subject for a note that the early regional issues from this program have attracted more sustained collector interest than later, more generic tourist entries.