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0 Euro Château de Blois
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir / UEAJ |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse centres on a detailed intaglio-style vignette of the François I wing façade of the Château de Blois, rendered in fine engraved lines over a guilloche underprint in purple and gold tones, with a portrait bust of King François I in regal attire positioned to the right. Upper left carries the Euro Souvenir circular star logo alongside the series reference '2019-3' and a large '0' denomination numeral, while the 'EURO SOUVENIR' logotype in purple and orange is placed at lower centre. The signature of R. Faille, C.E.O., appears at lower right above the serial number prefix. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents six iconic European landmarks arranged across the note in the standard Euro Souvenir layout — the Brandenburg Gate, the Tower of Belém, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken-Pis — rendered over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa inset as a vignette to the right. Each landmark is labelled with its respective name in its native language. The printer's imprint 'IMPRIMÉ PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE' appears among the lower inscriptions. |
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The 0 Euro souvenir program, administered by the Union Européenne des Agents de Jouets et de la Jeunesse, is a private commercial venture rather than a state monetary issue — these notes carry legal-tender denominations of zero, which is both the joke and the legal mechanism that allows Oberthur Fiduciaire to apply genuine euro-series security features without violating European Central Bank printing privileges. Each site edition is produced in a numbered limited run, and the Château de Blois release is among hundreds of French heritage site editions in the series.
Blois was a principal royal residence through the 15th and 16th centuries, associated most notoriously with the 1588 assassination of Henri, Duke of Guise, ordered by Henri III in the château's private apartments.