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0 Euro - Les Baux-de-Provence - Carrières de lumières Cezanne
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir Programme |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents immersive projections of Cézanne's paintings illuminating the vaulted limestone walls of the Carrières de Lumières at Les Baux-de-Provence. The inscription CEZANNE / LE MAÎTRE DE LA PROVENCE appears within the design alongside the denomination 0 EURO and the year 2021-6. Issuer and site identification lettering frames the composition with star underprint ornaments at base. |
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| Reverse description | Standard Euro Souvenir reverse with vignettes of six iconic European landmarks: Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis. A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears to the right. The denomination 0 EURO and printer attribution are printed in the lower portion. |
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Souvenir euros have been produced under the Euro Souvenir Programme since 2012 — legal novelties rather than legal tender, issued in denominations of zero precisely to avoid triggering EU monetary regulations. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them to banknote specification, same security substrate, same intaglio feel, which is the whole point of the commercial proposition.
Les Carrières de Lumières at Les Baux-de-Provence is a disused limestone quarry in the Alpilles converted into an immersive projection venue. The Cézanne edition ties to their rotating programme of large-scale light shows — this one dedicated to the Post-Impressionist painter whose studio was barely forty kilometres away in Aix-en-Provence.