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0 Euro - Hunawihr - Centre de réintroduction
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of two white storks perched on a nest, rendered in full colour against a lilac guilloche underprint, occupying the right two-thirds of the note. The large numeral '0' appears at centre-left, flanked by the EU flag at upper left and the 'EURO SOUVENIR' logo at lower centre. The series date '2015-1' is printed at left, with a facsimile signature of R. Faille (C.E.O.) at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with a composite vignette of four French UNESCO World Heritage monuments — the Pont du Gard, Mont-Saint-Michel, the Eiffel Tower, and Notre-Dame de Paris — arranged across the note against a multicolour guilloche underprint. A vignette of the Mona Lisa appears at right. The denomination '0€' is printed at lower left alongside the 'EURO SOUVENIR' logo. |
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Hunawihr's stork reintroduction programme, run out of a small village in the Alsatian wine country, was one of the more successful wetland conservation efforts in France — white storks had been functionally extinct as a breeding population in Alsace by the 1960s, and the centre helped reverse that. The 0 Euro souvenir format, launched by EuroSouvenir from 2015 onward, gave regional attractions a legal-tender-adjacent collectible printed to genuine banknote specification by Oberthur Fiduciaire, the same contractor behind numerous African and francophone central bank issues.
These notes are not redeemable and were never intended for circulation. Oberthur's involvement is the detail worth noting — the production quality is indistinguishable from circulating currency.