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0 Euro - BMW Museum
| Issuer | Germany, Federal Republic of |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on a lilac-pink guilloche underprint and presents a central vignette of a classic BMW 507 roadster in the foreground, with the twin-cylinder BMW Tower and the bowl-shaped BMW Museum building in Munich visible in the background. The large numeral '0' appears to the left center, accompanied by the European Union flag in the upper left corner and a series of gold stars along the right margin. The inscription 'BMW MUSEUM' is printed at the top, with 'EURO SOUV ENIR' and the serial number prefix 'XEHS' at the lower right, along with a facsimile signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | BMW MUSEUM EUROSOUVENIR 2024-5 0 EURO SOUVENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. XEHS |
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The zero euro souvenir note program, administered by the European Banknote Memory Organisation and printed exclusively by Oberthur Fiduciaire in France, has issued several hundred tourist-series notes since 2015. They carry legal tender status under French law only — a technicality that does not extend to Germany despite the euro being the common currency, which makes the denomination more of a collector's fiction than a monetary instrument.
The BMW Museum in Munich began participating in the souvenir note program in recent years, with this 2024 entry among the later releases in the series. Oberthur produces these on the same security substrate used for genuine euro notes, including UV-reactive elements and an embedded strip.