0 Euro - Balcone di Romeo e Giulietta

The European Souvenir Banknote Program produces these zero-denomination pieces expressly for the tourist market — they carry no legal tender status anywhere, function purely as collectibles, and are sold at the site they commemorate. This example was issued for the Casa di Giulietta in Verona, the medieval courtyard that owes its fame to a 1936 decision by the city administration to officially designate it as Juliet's house, despite no historical connection to Shakespeare or any actual Capulet family. The romantic mythology was municipal invention, and the souvenir trade followed accordingly.

Oberthur Fiduciaire prints the series using genuine security paper and intaglio, which gives these pieces an unexpectedly tactile quality for something with no monetary function whatsoever.