Catalog
0 Euro Blank; 2015
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir (R. Faille, C.E.O.) |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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| Protection description | Eiffel Tower view from below and value 0; Holographic patch affixed to the upper right corner of the obverse |
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The "0 Euro" souvenir note program was launched in France in 2015 by Richard Faille under the Euro Souvenir brand, exploiting a regulatory gap: notes with a face value of zero are not legal tender and therefore fall outside European Central Bank jurisdiction, allowing private entities to issue them freely. Oberthur Fiduciaire printed them to genuine banknote specification — same paper, same security thread, same holographic strip used on circulating euro notes — which is precisely the point. The souvenir trades on authenticity of production rather than monetary value.
The blank format here — no tourist site, no commemorative theme — represents the unfinished base before site-specific designs are applied, an unusual artifact in its own right.