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0 Euro - Berlin Alexanderplatz
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Lavender guilloche underprint with the EuroSouvenir flag vignette at upper left and a large intaglio-style zero denomination numeral at centre-left. The central vignette presents the Weltzeituhr (World Clock) and the Berliner Fernsehturm (TV Tower) of Alexanderplatz, with modern buildings to the right. A ring of gold stars and the CEO signature appear at lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | R. Faille (C.E.O.) |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program was launched in France in 2015 by Richard Faille's company EuroSouvenir, exploiting a legal quirk that allows private entities to produce euro-denominated notes provided they carry no monetary value and therefore fall outside the European Central Bank's exclusive right of issue. Oberthur Fiduciaire — one of the ECB's own contracted security printers — produces them, which means the anti-counterfeiting features on a souvenir note are often comparable to those on circulating currency.
The Berlin Alexanderplatz edition was among hundreds of tourist-site issues printed for the German market. Collector demand has made certain low-print-run city editions surprisingly hard to find at face retail price.