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0 Euro - L'accession au trône de Napoléon
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse lettering | L'ACCESSION AU TRÔNE DE NAPOLÉON EUROSOUVENIR 2020-1 0 N EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. XERG * * * * * |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Oberthur Fiduciaire has produced the majority of the EuroSouvenir series under license from the European Central Bank, which granted formal approval for these zero-denomination collector notes in 2015. The approval was contentious — the ECB required strict dimensional and design compliance with genuine euro banknotes, including mandatory watermarks, to prevent any possibility of fraudulent use while simultaneously allowing member-state cultural institutions to issue them freely.
Napoleon's accession to the imperial throne in December 1804 was a calculated legal fiction as much as a ceremony — he crowned himself, famously taking the crown from Pope Pius VII's hands before it could be placed by the pontiff.