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| Issuer | Euro Souvenir / Societe Europeenne de Confection de Souvenirs (SECS) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse lettering | FIRENZE BASILICA DI SANTA CROCE EUROSOUVENIR 2018-1 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. SECS * * * * * |
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| Protection type | Hologram, Microtext |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program was launched in France in 2015 by SECS, exploiting a legal quirk: because the face value is zero, these notes fall outside European Central Bank jurisdiction and require no monetary authorization to produce. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them to genuine banknote specification — hologram strip, microtext, intaglio-feel paper — which is precisely the commercial appeal.
The Basilica di Santa Croce edition is one of hundreds of Italian tourist-site issues in the series. Collectibility within this program is driven almost entirely by print run size, which SECS typically caps per location to sustain secondary market demand.