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0 Euro - Biarritz Cité de l'océan
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir / UEHA |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Cité de l'Océan building in Biarritz, rendered in intaglio-style print against a coloured underprint. The EuroSouvenir zero-euro format is observed, with series inscription '2018-1' and signatures of R. Faille (C.E.O.) and the UEHA authority legend in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks — the Brandenburg Gate, the Tower of Belém, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis — arranged across the note, with a portrait of the Mona Lisa at right and the denomination '0€' in the upper field. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program, administered by the UEHA under license from the European Central Bank, launched commercially in 2015 and quickly became one of the more successful novelty philatelic concepts in recent European publishing history. Oberthur prints the series using genuine banknote-quality security paper with embedded features — UV printing, microtext, a holographic strip — essentially identical in specification to circulating euro notes, which is the entire point of the exercise.
The Biarritz Cité de l'Océan issue is one of several hundred tourist-site editions. No monetary value, no redemption, no central bank obligation — but the security printing is entirely real.