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0 Euro - Billet Royal - Fort Boyard
| Issuer | Billet Royal / Fonderie Saint Luc |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Green-toned vignette of Fort Boyard sea fortress at centre, with a white tiger's head in the upper right field against a euro-star underprint. A large guilloche zero numeral appears to the left, alongside the French tricolour flag and a vertical copyright inscription. Series prefix and denomination legend occupy the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | FORT BOYARD 0 © BILLET ROYAL - FONDERIE SAINT LUC 2024 ZERO EURO BILLET BR ROYAL FR17 |
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The souvenir zero-euro note market has been running since 2015, when the European Central Bank quietly confirmed it had no objection to privately issued notes denominated at zero — legally valueless, therefore unregulated as currency. Fonderie Saint Luc, a Belgian printing firm, became one of the principal producers for the French tourist trade. Fort Boyard, the nineteenth-century sea fort off the Charente-Maritime coast that spent decades as a ruin before becoming one of French television's most recognizable game show sets, is a reliable seller in this format.
Printed to ISO 7810 ID-2 adjacent dimensions on paper rather than polymer, these are merchandising items with no redemption mechanism and no issuing bank behind them.