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0 Euro - Cité royale de Loches - Le Logis
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs / Cité royale de Loches |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a perspective view of the Logis Royal at the Cité royale de Loches, a medieval château in the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val-de-Loire. The design incorporates guilloche underprint patterns and the Eurosouvenirs programme logo, with denomination '0 EURO' in large numerals. |
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| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenirs reverse with six European landmark vignettes arranged across the note: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels). A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears at right, with printer's imprint below. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program was launched in 2015 by Richard Faille, a French entrepreneur who licensed the European Central Bank's design format specifically for the tourist market. Oberthur's involvement lends the series genuine security printing credentials — these are produced on the same equipment used for circulating currency, including intaglio printing and embedded security threads, which is precisely why collectors treat them as legitimate printed pieces rather than novelties.
Le Logis is the medieval royal residence at Loches where Charles VII held court in the Loire Valley. The 2019 date places this note in the program's expansion phase, when hundreds of French heritage sites had joined the scheme.