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0 Euro - Bordeaux - Tour Pey Berland
| Issuer | Centre des Monuments Nationaux |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Pey-Berland tower, the Gothic free-standing bell tower of Saint-André Cathedral in Bordeaux, constructed between 1440 and 1500, rising 66 m; classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The EuroSouvenir programme logo and issuer inscription appear alongside the year 2018 and denomination 0 EURO. |
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| Reverse description | Composite vignette of celebrated European landmarks arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels), with a portrait of the Mona Lisa at right. Denomination 0€ and EuroSouvenir inscriptions appear in the lower field. |
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The Tour Pey Berland is the freestanding bell tower of Bordeaux Cathedral, built separately from the nave in the 15th century to prevent bell vibrations from damaging the church's stone fabric — a practical medieval engineering decision that gives the city one of its more unusual Gothic silhouettes. The zero-euro souvenir note program, administered through the Centre des Monuments Nationaux and printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire, launched in 2016 and has since issued hundreds of site-specific pieces sold exclusively at participating monuments and museums.
These notes carry a genuine EURion constellation and pass most counterfeit detection scanners — a deliberate choice to make them feel like real currency, which is precisely the point.