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0 Euro - Château Comtal de Carcassonne
| Issuer | Centre des Monuments Nationaux |
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| Year | 2019-2026 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Château Comtal, the medieval fortress within the walled city of Carcassonne (Aude, Occitanie), rendered in intaglio-style illustration. The EuroSouvenir logo and Centre des Monuments Nationaux inscription appear alongside the face value '0 EURO' and the series number '2019-1'. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHÂTEAU COMTAL DE CARCASSONNE EUROSOUVENIR 2019 - 1 0 0 CENTRE DES MONUMENTS NATIONAUX EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE CEO UEHY ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program, administered through the Centre des Monuments Nationaux and distributed via tourist retail points, occupies a peculiar commercial niche — legal-tender format, zero face value, produced by a security printer holding genuine currency contracts. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints these to the same technical standards as circulating notes, including UV-reactive elements and intaglio printing on some issues, which makes the production cost considerably higher than the retail price suggests.
Carcassonne's fortified cité was extensively reconstructed by Viollet-le-Duc from 1853 onward — controversially, using Northern French slate roofing rather than the flat Mediterranean tiles that original construction would have used. The debate about his interventions has never really settled.