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0 Euro - Guyane - Cacao - Le Planeur Bleu papillon
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | LE PLANEUR BLEU CACAO EN GUYANE EUROSOUVENIR 2017-2 0 0 Suriname St-Laurent-du-Maroni Kourou CAYENNE cacao Guyane 973 Brésil Gynandromorphe de Morpho mélénaus EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEFN |
| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks: Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis arranged across the centre, with a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa at right. The denomination "0 €" appears at upper left above the EUROSOUENIR panel. |
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EuroSouvenir notes are legal-tender novelties authorized under a 2012 European Central Bank decision permitting member states to issue zero-denomination collector pieces — technically valid as "euro banknotes" but with no face value, which sidesteps the counterfeiting prohibitions that would otherwise apply. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the few security printers with both the ECB approval and the production infrastructure, handles the bulk of the French regional issues in this series.
This particular piece ties to French Guiana's cacao-growing tradition, which dates to Jesuit cultivation in the 18th century and remains one of the territory's small-scale agricultural identities today.