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0 Euro - Gustav II Adolf Vasa
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries vignettes of six iconic European monuments arranged across the note: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Tower of Belém (Lisbon), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A reproduction of the Mona Lisa is positioned to the right, with the denomination '0€' and the EuroSouvenir branding repeated in the lower field, alongside the printer's imprint 'PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE / MADE IN FRANCE'. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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EuroSouvenir notes are collector items with no legal tender status, issued under a licensed scheme that uses genuine euro-format security paper and Oberthur's intaglio printing — the same French security printer responsible for banknotes across numerous African and European jurisdictions. The zero-denomination format was deliberately chosen to sidestep EU regulations prohibiting the production of euro lookalikes with assigned face values.
Gustav II Adolf, the Swedish king who intervened decisively in the Thirty Years' War in 1630, died at the Battle of Lützen in 1632 — one of the most consequential battlefield deaths of the seventeenth century. His commemorative presence on a French-printed souvenir note sold likely at a Swedish tourist site is the whole story here.