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0 Euro - Biarritz Rocher De La Vierge
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs / Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2017 |
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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 presents the Rocher de la Vierge, a rock formation off the Biarritz coastline surmounted by a statue of the Virgin Mary, rendered in multicolour intaglio-style print. The denomination '0 EURO' appears in large numerals flanking the vignette, with EUROSOUVENIRS lettering and the series reference '2017-3' integrated into the design. |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural vignettes arranged across the note — the Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis — rendered in a tonal underprint. A reproduction of the Mona Lisa occupies the right portion, echoing the style of standard Euro banknote reverses. |
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Souvenir euros were introduced under a 2012 agreement between the European Central Bank and participating eurozone states, allowing the production of legal-tender-format collector notes that are explicitly not legal tender — a bureaucratic distinction that nonetheless required ECB sign-off. Oberthur Fiduciaire, which has printed genuine French banknotes and security documents for decades, handles the physical production, lending these pieces a level of technical credibility unusual for the tourist souvenir market.
The watermark is genuine security paper construction, not a printed simulation — an oddity for something sold in gift shops.