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0 Euro Foynes Flying Boat and Maritime Museum
| Issuer | Foynes Flying Boat and Maritime Museum |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenirs reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). The Mona Lisa portrait appears at right. |
| 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 Foynes Flying Boat and Maritime Museum souvenir euro was issued in 2019 under the European Central Bank's zero-denomination collector program, which licenses approved institutions to produce legal-design notes that are neither legal tender nor redeemable for value. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the few security printers qualified to produce these under ECB technical standards, handles the majority of the Irish museum series.
Foynes, County Limerick, was the eastern terminus of the first scheduled transatlantic passenger flying boat service, operated by Pan American Airways from 1939. The airbase closed in 1945 when land-based aircraft made the route obsolete — a remarkably short operational window for infrastructure of that ambition.