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0 Euro Château de Blois
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir / UEAJ |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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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. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELÉM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS IMPRIMÉ PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE EURO SOUVENIR |
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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.