0 Euro - Die Lübecker Museen-Holstentor

The zero-euro souvenir note is a privately commissioned collectible format that emerged around 2015, issued through a French licensing scheme operated by Richard Faille's EuroBillet company. Oberthur prints them to genuine euro security specifications — watermark, security thread, microprinting — despite carrying no monetary value and no legal tender status anywhere. The Holstentor in Lübeck is one of Germany's most reproduced architectural images, a medieval brick gate that survived the city's 1942 Allied bombing largely intact while much of the surrounding Altstadt did not.