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0 Euro - Gaio Giulio Cesare
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Size | 135 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette reproduces a statue of Gaius Julius Caesar after the 1713 work by Nicolas Coustou (1658–1733), now in the Louvre, set against a guilloche underprint with the Roman Republican emblem SPQR (Senatus PopulusQue Romanus). Denomination '0' appears twice in the lower field flanking the central motif, with the EuroSouvenir legend and series reference '2020-1' in the upper register. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries vignettes of six European landmarks — Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels) — arranged across the note within a guilloche underprint. A vignette of the Mona Lisa occupies the right portion, with the zero-euro denomination cartouche and printer's imprint in the lower margin. |
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EuroSouvenir notes occupy a peculiar corner of notaphily — legal tender they are not, but they are printed by the same security printers handling actual euro production. Oberthur Fiduciaire, which has printed genuine banknotes for dozens of issuing authorities, applies the same substrate and intaglio-adjacent techniques here, which is precisely why collectors treat these as more than novelty items.
Julius Caesar as a souvenir subject requires no justification. The 0 Euro format launched in France around 2015 and expanded rapidly through European tourist sites; by 2020 the catalog ran to several hundred distinct issues.