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0 Euro - Grutas de Mira de Aire
| Issuer | European Me Collectors Club (MECC) |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Large intaglio-style zero numeral at left-centre, flanked on the left by the EU flag vignette and a ring of gold stars on a lavender guilloche underprint. Central vignette shows the interior of the Grutas de Mira de Aire cave system with stalactite formations. Serial number prefix MECC at lower right, with the EURO SOUVENIR logotype in multicolour at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Standard Euro Souvenir reverse with six European architectural landmarks rendered in intaglio-style vignettes across the centre, each labelled in its native script. Portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right. Lilac and ochre guilloche underprint with repeated EURO border lettering. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note is a curious commercial category that emerged around 2015, produced under license from the European Central Bank and printed to legal-tender specification — same security paper, same Oberthur presses used for circulating euro banknotes — but assigned no monetary value and therefore exempt from counterfeiting law. MECC coordinates the collector series across participating European sites, of which Grutas de Mira de Aire, Portugal's largest accessible cave system, is one.
These notes do not circulate. They are sold at the attraction and go directly into albums.