Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
0 Euro - L`île d`Oléron - La Lumineuse classique
| Issuer | France |
|---|---|
| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 135 × 74 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The obverse presents a panoramic vignette sequence arranged left to right across the note, encompassing oyster huts, the Île d'Oléron bridge, Fort Boyard, a map of the island with its IØ symbol, a fishing vessel, and culminating at right in the Chassiron lighthouse set upon rocky cliffs at the island's northern tip near Saint-Denis-d'Oléron. The face value '0' and the EUROSOUVENIR designation are integrated into the design alongside the series identifier '2020-2'. Inscriptions include the island name, the epithet 'LA LUMINEUSE', issuer references 'R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEEC', and the currency indicator 'EUR'. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DASBRANENBUGERTOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LATOUREIFFEL SAGRADAFAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The zero-euro souvenir note program, launched by the European Collectors Exchange around 2015, occupies a legally clever niche: these notes are struck to genuine euro security specifications — same paper, same printing house, same intaglio process — yet carry no face value and circulate only as collectibles. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the continent's major security printers, produces them to the same technical standard as working currency, which is precisely the point.
The Île d'Oléron issue is one of dozens of regional French tourist notes in the series. "La Lumineuse" — the luminous one — is the island's traditional nickname, earned by an Atlantic light quality that attracted painters for generations.