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0 Euro - BMW Museum
| Issuer | Germany, Federal Republic of |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | A BMW Z3 roadster occupies the central vignette, set against a background vignette of the BMW Museum tower and the BMW Headquarters four-cylinder building in Munich. The denomination '0 EURO' appears in bold lettering, with the series identifier 'EUROSOUVENIR 2025-7' and model designation 'BMW 323i 1995-1999' inscribed below. The composition is rendered in the aesthetic style characteristic of euro souvenir notes, with guilloche underprint elements framing the central design. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program, administered through the Paris-based Oberthur Fiduciaire operation under EuroBanknotes, launched around 2015 and has since produced hundreds of location-specific pieces marketed to tourists across Europe. They are legal tender in name only — the ECB tolerates the fiction, but no retailer is obligated to accept them, and none do. The BMW Museum in Munich is a predictable addition to the catalog: a high-traffic venue with a captive audience already disposed to spending on branded merchandise.
Oberthur prints the entire series on genuine banknote paper with intaglio elements, which is partly why collectors engage with them at all.