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0 Euro - Domaine national du château d'Angers
| Issuer | Centre des Monuments Nationaux |
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| Year | 2018-2020 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the south facade of the Château d'Angers, with the Porte des Champs and moat-gardens in the foreground; the medieval fortress, also known as the Castle of the Dukes of Anjou, is rendered in polychrome intaglio-style print. Inscriptions above and below identify the monument, with the Eurosouvenirs logo and Centre des Monuments Nationaux seal. |
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| Reverse description | Six vignettes of European landmarks arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right, with the Eurosouvenirs logo and printer's inscription below. |
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The Centre des Monuments Nationaux began issuing commemorative zero-euro notes through participating heritage sites around 2015, with Oberthur Fiduciaire producing them to full legal-tender specification — same security paper, same intaglio printing — despite carrying no redemption value whatsoever. The Angers château series falls within the 2018–2020 window, when the souvenir note market had already expanded to hundreds of French sites and the novelty of the format was visibly driving collector fatigue among early adopters.
Oberthur's plant in Chantepie handles the bulk of this output. The notes are genuine banknote production, just commercially commissioned rather than state-mandated.