0 Euro - Bénouville - Pegasus Bridge Anniversary

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.