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0 Euro - Billet Royal - Aquarium de Lyon
| Issuer | Billet Royal - Fonderie Saint Luc |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Size | 140 x 77 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with a large guilloche zero numeral at left, flanked by a French tricolour flag vignette and a facsimile signature above. The right half carries a colourful underwater scene with a seahorse, a clownfish, a striped tropical fish, a tang, and a jellyfish set against a background of euro-star motifs. The watermark escutcheon is visible at centre-left. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The zero-euro souvenir note format was formally licensed by the European Central Bank beginning in 2015, allowing approved printers to produce legally denominated but non-circulating collectibles tied to tourist attractions. Fonderie Saint Luc, a French printing house, operates the "Billet Royal" program as one of the commercial licensees. The Aquarium de Lyon issue is straightforwardly a point-of-sale collectible — its value is entirely sentimental and philatelic rather than monetary or historical.
The watermark is the sole security feature, a nod to banknote convention rather than any practical anti-counterfeiting need for a note worth nothing.