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0 Euro - Béthune
| Issuer | Union Européenne de Valeurs et Achats (UEVA) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Size | 135 × 74 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a composite vignette of celebrated European landmarks arranged across the note, including Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Lisbon's Belém Tower, Paris's Eiffel Tower, Rome's Colosseum, Barcelona's Sagrada Família, and Brussels's Manneken-Pis. A reproduction of the face of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is positioned to the right, accompanied by the printer's imprint and the zero-euro denomination in numeral and word form. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 0 euro souvenir note program, administered through licensed distributors like UEVA, was formalized around 2015 as a commercial collectible — legal tender in no jurisdiction, face value intentionally zero, and openly sold at a markup. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them to genuine banknote specification, which is precisely the point: the paper, the watermark, the intaglio feel all signal authenticity while the denomination signals none is claimed.
Béthune, a former coal-mining town in the Pas-de-Calais, was one of thousands of French localities to commission an issue. The program has produced well over a thousand location-specific variants since launch.