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0 Euro Blaise Pascal
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Right-centre vignette of Blaise Pascal in three-quarter portrait, shown with his Pascaline mechanical calculator at bottom; to his left, a geometric diagram illustrating Pascal's theorem with labelled points on a circle. The large numeral '0' appears at left, flanked by the EU flag and a QR code underprint. Stars border the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis. A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right, with the denomination '0€' at upper left and printer's imprint at lower centre. |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program, administered under license from the European Central Bank, authorizes cultural and tourist institutions across Europe to issue legally denominated but non-circulating collector pieces. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints the series to genuine banknote specification — same security paper, same intaglio process — which is precisely what makes them interesting as artifacts: technically indistinguishable from circulating currency in production method, worthless as tender by design.
Pascal died in 1662 at thirty-nine, having abandoned mathematics for theology. He appeared on the French 500 Franc note for decades before the euro made that irrelevant.