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0 Euro - Le Mémorial de Caen
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs (Union Européenne de Collections de Souvenirs / UECS) |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the facade of the Mémorial de Caen museum building, Normandy, France. The denomination "0" appears twice in large numerals flanking the central design, with the EUROSOUVENIRS inscription and series reference "2020-5" above. A memorial quote is inscribed in French across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | LE MÉMORIAL DE CAEN EUROSOUVENIR 2020-5 0 "La douleur m'a brisée, la fraternité m'a relevée, de ma blessure a jailli un fleuve de liberté" 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UECS |
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The 0 euro souvenir note program was formalized under the UECS framework around 2015, with Oberthur Fiduciaire — one of the few security printers with both the licensing and the substrate technology to replicate genuine euro banknote characteristics — producing the series under strict ECB-tolerated parameters. The legal instrument that permits these is the EU's explicit allowance for non-legal-tender facsimiles provided they cannot circulate as genuine currency.
Le Mémorial de Caen, opened in 1988, is a significant site-specific choice: the museum was built directly above the former command bunker of General Wilhelm Richter, whose 716th Infantry Division held the Normandy sector on 6 June 1944.