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0 Euro - Ishtar Gate of Babylon
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, the ceremonial northern gate of the inner city constructed c. 580 BC under Nebuchadnezzar II and dedicated to the goddess Ishtar. The denomination "0 EURO" appears in guilloche underprint, with IRAQ - ISHTAR GATE OF BABYLON WORLD HERITAGE legend above and EUROSOUVENIR imprint below. |
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| Reverse description | Six European landmark vignettes arranged across the note — Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Tower of Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels) — with a portrait of the Mona Lisa at right. Printer imprint PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE / MADE IN FRANCE appears at lower centre. |
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EuroSouvenir notes occupy an odd niche — face value zero, legal tender nowhere, yet printed to full security specifications by Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the handful of printers trusted with actual euro production. The Ishtar Gate issue is part of a broader series covering UNESCO World Heritage Sites and archaeological monuments, sold as collectibles through museum gift shops and tourist kiosks near the relevant sites.
The Gate itself was dismantled and shipped to Berlin by Robert Koldewey's Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft excavation between 1902 and 1914, where it was reconstructed at the Pergamon Museum — meaning the monument commemorated here has not existed in Iraq for over a century.