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0 Euro - L'aventure Michelin
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a composite vignette of six iconic European architectural monuments arranged across the note's surface: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Big Ben (London), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken Pis (Brussels), each rendered in a simplified illustrative style. The denomination '0 €' appears alongside the individual monument names in their respective languages, with printer and country-of-manufacture inscriptions disposed along the lower margin. The overall design follows the standardised EuroBanknote Memory reverse template. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUVENIR |
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The zero euro souvenir note program, launched around 2015 by EuroNote Collector, occupies an odd niche: legal tender denomination of zero, printed to genuine banknote specifications, sold at a premium to tourists as collectibles. Oberthur Fiduciaire produces them to the same security standard as circulating currency — watermark, security thread, intaglio printing — which is most of the point.
The Michelin tie-in references the company's museum in Clermont-Ferrand, which opened in its current form in 2009. Bibendum has been a commercial icon since 1898, which makes him one of the longest-lived advertising mascots in European industrial history.