0 Euro - Ishtar Gate of Babylon

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.