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0 Euro - Éperlecques - Le blockhaus de lancement des V1 et V2
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Size | 135 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | LE BLOCKHAUS D'EPERLECQUES EUROSOUVENIR 2020-3 0 0 1ère base V2 & V1fr EURO SOUVENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEDT |
| Reverse description | Standard Euro Souvenir reverse with a panoramic vignette of six iconic European monuments arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels), the latter rendered in bronze/yellow as part of the fifth-anniversary commemorative variant. A vignette of the Mona Lisa appears at the right. The denomination 0 EURO is printed in large numerals at the lower centre. |
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The Blockhaus d'Éperlecques was the largest V-weapon construction project the Germans attempted in occupied France — a reinforced concrete bunker in the Pas-de-Calais intended to serve as a permanent V2 assembly and launch facility. Allied bombing in 1943 and 1944, combined with French resistance intelligence, prevented it from ever becoming operational. The site was never used to fire a single rocket.
Zero euro souvenir notes are a French tourist industry phenomenon that began around 2015, produced by Oberthur Fiduciaire under license and sold at heritage sites as legal-format collectibles with no monetary function.