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0 Euro - France miniature
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2022-2024 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows two children watching a train pass, with miniature reproductions of the Arc de Triomphe and Château de Chambord in the background, set within the France Miniature theme park in Elancourt, Yvelines. Denomination "0 EURO" appears in guilloche underprint at right. |
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| Reverse description | Six vignettes of European landmarks arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right, with denomination "0€" in guilloche underprint. |
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EuroSouvenir notes occupy a curious legal niche — they are genuine banknotes in format and print quality, produced by licensed security printers under European Central Bank authorization, but denominated at zero and explicitly intended never to circulate. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of France's two principal security printers, has produced the bulk of the French souvenir series, applying the same intaglio and offset techniques used on circulating euro currency.
The miniature format — roughly two-thirds the size of a standard euro note — was introduced to distinguish souvenir issues more clearly from legal tender, following ECB guidance on collectible zero-denomination pieces.