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0 Euro - Château de Chambord
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHÂTEAU DE CHAMBORD EUROSOUVENIR 2016 -1 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEAR |
| Reverse description | Composite vignette incorporating six European architectural landmarks: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Big Ben (London), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels), with a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa at right. Denomination '0€' appears at upper left within a guilloche underprint. |
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EuroSouvenir's zero-denomination series launched in France in 2016, with Chambord among the inaugural subjects. These notes carry all the security features of circulating currency — printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire under the same technical standards applied to legal tender — but were conceived entirely as collector pieces, sold at tourist sites for a few euros apiece. The European Central Bank explicitly permits them provided the face value reads zero, which neatly sidesteps counterfeiting law.
Chambord was a logical first-wave choice: the largest château in the Loire Valley, built under Francis I beginning in 1519, and state-owned since 1930.