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0 Euro - Ensérune - Oppidum et musée archéologique
| Issuer | Centre des Monuments Nationaux |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Size | 135 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ENSÉRUNE, OPPIDUM ET MUSÉE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE EUROSOUVENIR 2023-1 CENTRE DES MONUMENTS NATIONAUX 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEPF ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenirs reverse with vignettes of six iconic European monuments — Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis — arranged across the centre, with a vignette of the Mona Lisa at right. A fine multicolour guilloche underprint frames the composition throughout. |
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The Centre des Monuments Nationaux has issued zero-euro souvenir notes for individual heritage sites since 2015, contracting Oberthur Fiduciaire to produce them on genuine banknote paper with the same security features as circulating currency — including the EURion constellation and UV-reactive ink. They are legal in format but carry no redemption value, a status that sidesteps counterfeiting law while keeping the collector proposition intact.
Ensérune is one of the better-documented pre-Roman oppida in southern Gaul, occupied from roughly the 6th century BCE through the 1st century CE. The site's necropolis and the drained Étang de Montady visible nearby make it genuinely unusual among hilltop settlements of the region.