0 Euro - Cité de la voile Éric Tabarly

Zero-euro souvenir notes were introduced by a French entrepreneur in 2015 as a legal-tender-adjacent collectible — they carry the ECB's official euro note visual language under license but hold no monetary value whatsoever. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the primary security printers supplying the actual Eurosystem, produced this piece, which gives it more technical credibility than most tourist novelties.

The Cité de la Voile in Lorient is built around the memory of Éric Tabarly, the French naval officer and offshore racing sailor who won the 1964 and 1976 OSTAR transatlantic races and became a genuine national figure before drowning in the Irish Sea in 1998.