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0 Euro - La vallée des singes
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents portrait busts of three great apes — a chimpanzé at lower left, a gorille at centre, and a bonobo at right — set against a lavender guilloche microprint underprint with scattered stars. The intaglio-style denomination zero appears at upper left beside the EuroSouvenir flag emblem dated 2020-1, with the title inscription LA VALLÉE DES SINGES across the top. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with vignettes of six iconic European architectural monuments arranged across the note, including the Brandenburg Gate, Torre de Belém, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis, over a fine guilloche underprint. The Mona Lisa portrait appears at right, with the zero-euro denomination cartouche at lower centre. |
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La Vallée des Singes is a primate park near Romagne in the Vienne department of western France, opened in 1998 and home to one of the larger collections of great apes in Europe. This note belongs to the EuroSouvenir program, a commercial novelty series launched around 2015 through which tourist attractions across Europe issue zero-denomination pieces as collectibles — legal in the eurozone precisely because they carry no face value and make no claim as currency.
Oberthur Fiduciaire, which has printed genuine banknotes for dozens of sovereign issuers, handles the physical production. The security features are real, which is part of the appeal for collectors.