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0 Euro - Bénouville - Pegasus Bridge Anniversary
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir (UEFG) |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Pegasus Bridge at Bénouville with the Memorial Pegasus museum in the background; a sculpture of Bellerophon astride Pegasus is shown at the bridge entrance. The denomination "0 EURO" appears at lower centre within a guilloche underprint, flanked by a vertical row of five five-pointed stars at right. |
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| Protection description | "ANNIVERSARY 2020" text watermark combined with an aerial view of the Eiffel Tower with a "0" at its centre |
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The 0 Euro souvenir series, administered by the Union Européenne pour la Fabrication de la Gamme des euros, occupies an odd corner of notaphily — legal in design but deliberately valueless, printed by fully licensed security printers and sold as collectibles at tourist sites. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the few firms authorized to produce euro-format security paper with legitimate watermarking, handles much of the output. The Bénouville Pegasus Bridge edition commemorates the overnight glider assault of 5–6 June 1944, when D Company of the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry seized the bridge over the Caen Canal — the first Allied ground action of D-Day.
The 2020 date places this issue in the run-up to the 76th anniversary, a quieter year given pandemic restrictions on the commemorations that typically draw veterans and crowds to Normandy.