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0 Euro - La Giralda
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Large zero numeral at left within a ring of twelve gold stars on a lilac guilloche underprint, with the EU flag vignette at upper left. Central and right fields carry a vignette of Seville's Giralda tower alongside a stylised female portrait and the ECC Sevilla 2018 logo. The EUROSOUVENIR inscription is split vertically at lower centre; serial prefix VEBG and the R. Faille C.E.O. facsimile signature appear at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Six European landmark vignettes arranged across the field: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right. The printer's imprint runs along the lower margin on a purple-toned guilloche underprint. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program was launched in 2015 by Richard Faille's company Eurosouvenirs, exploiting a gap in EU law that does not prohibit the production of zero-denomination euro-format notes — they carry no monetary value, so they cannot be counterfeited in any meaningful legal sense. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them to genuine banknote specification, with proper security thread and intaglio printing, which is precisely the point: collectors pay for the production quality, not the face value.
La Giralda, the Moorish minaret-turned-bell-tower in Seville, was one of the earlier architectural subjects in the series. Faille's signature appears on every note in the program regardless of subject.