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0 Euro - Château de Pierrefonds
| Issuer | Centre des Monuments Nationaux |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Château de Pierrefonds façade rendered in detailed intaglio-style print, with the winged Griffin emblem of the Paris City Hall at right. Denomination '0 EURO' appears in large numerals, flanked by the EUROSOUENIR series identifier and five-star row at lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural vignettes arranged across the face: Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis, with each monument's name inscribed beneath its image. A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right, alongside the '0 EURO SOUVENIR' denomination. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program, administered through licensed distributors across European heritage sites, was formalized around 2015 and has since become an unexpected secondary market in its own right — certain early regional issues now trade well above face value among collectors. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints the series to genuine banknote specification, which means real intaglio work, genuine security thread, and UV-reactive elements, all for a note that was never legal tender by design.
Pierrefonds is a 19th-century reconstruction by Viollet-le-Duc, commissioned by Napoleon III — not a medieval survival, though it reads as one.