Catalog
0 Euro - Château de Foix
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir (UEPA) |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries six vignettes of iconic European monuments arranged across the note — the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Tower of Belém (Lisbon), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken Pis (Brussels) — printed over a fine multicolour guilloche underprint. A portrait of the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci appears to the right of centre. Printer and country-of-manufacture inscriptions are placed along the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Hologram |
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The 0 Euro souvenir program, administered by the Union Européenne des Partenaires Autorisés, has been running since 2015 and Oberthur Fiduciaire — one of the few security printers in France with the accreditation to produce legal-format notes — handles the bulk of production. These pieces carry genuine banknote security features, which is both the point and the oddity: full watermark and hologram applied to a note with no monetary function whatsoever.
Château de Foix, perched on its rock above the Ariège valley, was a Cathar-era stronghold and later a prison. Its appearance on a souvenir issue is straightforwardly commercial — the format sells, and the site draws visitors.