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0 Euro - Casino de Monte-Carlo
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir / UEWH |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | CASINO DE MONTE-CARLO EURO SOUVENIR 2025-1 0 EURO SOUVENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEWH |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries vignettes of six iconic European monuments — Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Lisbon's Belém Tower, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Rome's Colosseum, Barcelona's Sagrada Família, and Brussels' Manneken-Pis — arranged across the central field in a multicolour underprint. A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa occupies the right portion of the design. The denomination '0€' and the printer's imprint appear within the lettering band. |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program, administered by the Union Européenne des Wallons de l'Histoire (UEWH) and distributed through tourist venues across Europe, has been running since 2015. These pieces are printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire to the same security standards as circulating currency — genuine intaglio printing, security thread, watermark — which is precisely why the European Central Bank was consulted before the series launched. The denomination of zero was the legal workaround: no face value, no conflict with euro issuance monopoly.
The Casino de Monte-Carlo edition is notable for where it is sold rather than where it is issued — Monaco itself uses the euro under a monetary agreement with the EU but has no central bank and mints no paper currency of its own.