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0 Euro Fátima
| Issuer | European Central Bank (ECB) |
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| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Lavender-toned note with a guilloche underprint; at left, the EuroSouvenir flag vignette with series code 2019-3, and a large intaglio numeral '0' in the centre. Central vignette shows a historical photograph of the three Fátima seers (Lúcia, Francisco, and Jacinta) before the Sanctuary of Fátima basilica; at right, a crowned statue of Our Lady of Fátima with clasped hands. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DASBRANENBUGERTOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LATOUREIFFEL SAGRADAFAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The zero euro souvenir note program, launched in France in 2015 and later expanded across Europe, occupies a legal grey area — issued with ECB authorization and featuring the full euro security format, but with no monetary value and no obligation on any institution to accept them. Oberthur Fiduciaire produces them to the same technical specification as circulating currency, which is precisely the point: the novelty is the format itself.
Fátima, the Portuguese Marian shrine drawing millions of pilgrims annually, is among the more commercially logical subjects in the series. The 2019 date places this note in the program's period of rapid geographic and thematic expansion, when dozens of tourist sites across Catholic Europe adopted the format for visitor retail.