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0 Euro - Château de Schönbrunn
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a photographic composite of the Schönbrunn Palace façade overlaid with a large sculptural group in the foreground, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint in pink and gold tones. The EU flag appears at upper left alongside the denomination numeral '0' in outline, with twelve gold stars arcing at right. A facsimile signature of R. Faille (C.E.O.) and serial prefix UE10C appear at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | A collage of iconic European landmarks fills the note, including the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Brandenburg Gate, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis statue, rendered in violet-toned vignettes against a lavender guilloche underprint. A watermark-style portrait appears at far right, with twelve EU stars arcing across the upper field. The '0€' denomination is set at upper left alongside the 'EURO SOUVENIR' inscription at lower right. |
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Euro Souvenir notes occupy a peculiar commercial niche: legal in format, worthless by design, and produced under license to satisfy a collector and tourist market that emerged after the European Central Bank quietly tolerated the scheme. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of France's principal security printers, handled this Schönbrunn issue — the same facility responsible for genuine banknote production across multiple sovereign clients, here applying the same substrate and thread technology to what is essentially a high-end souvenir.
Polymer construction distinguishes this run from earlier paper-based Euro Souvenir issues, making it among the more durable of the format's incarnations.