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0 Euro - Château d'Azay-le-Rideau
| Issuer | Centre des Monuments Nationaux |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Château d'Azay-le-Rideau rendered in intaglio-style engraving in purple-brown tones against a multicolour guilloche underprint. A large intaglio '0' numeral occupies the left-centre, flanked by the EU flag souvenir logo and series date '2017 - 1'. Lower right bears the EURO SOUVENIR logotype, issuer stamp of Centre des Monuments Nationaux, and serial prefix UEGJ. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries vignettes of six iconic European landmarks — Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis — arranged across the face with the Mona Lisa portrait to the right, all set over a fine multicolour guilloche underprint. The '0 €' denomination appears at upper left alongside the EURO SOUVENIR logotype and printer's imprint. |
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The 0 euro souvenir note program was launched by the Maison de la Monnaie de Paris in 2015, with Centre des Monuments Nationaux adopting it as a revenue and visitor engagement tool for its portfolio of state-owned heritage sites. These notes carry legal-tender status under European law — a technicality that required genuine ECB-standard security features, including the Oberthur-produced paper and printing — yet were never intended to circulate. The denomination makes that explicit enough.
Azay-le-Rideau was undergoing an extensive multi-year restoration when this note was issued in 2017, which gives the timing some mild irony.