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| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Size | 135 x 74 mm |
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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 reproduction of the Mona Lisa portrait appears at right, over a multicolour guilloche underprint. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELÉM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The EuroSouvenir program produces legal-tender 0 Euro notes through a licensing arrangement with the Banque de France, with Oberthur Fiduciaire handling production under the same security-printing standards applied to circulating Euro currency. This particular issue commemorates the 2022 FIFA World Cup hosted by Qatar — a notably incongruous pairing, given that Canada qualified for that tournament for the first time since 1986, yet holds no connection whatsoever to the Euro currency zone.
Collector demand drove the souvenir note market sharply upward after 2015, when the first EuroSouvenir issues appeared; by 2022, print runs for popular themes regularly sold out within days of release.