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0 Euro - Les Baux-de-Provence - Carrières des lumières de Vermeer à Van Gogh
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Size | 135 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the interior of the ancient limestone quarries of Les Baux-de-Provence, illuminated by immersive light projections associated with the Carrières des Lumières exhibition. The denomination 0 EURO appears in the lower portion, accompanied by the inscriptions CARRIÈRES DES LUMIÈRES and LES BAUX-DE-PROVENCE. The design references the exhibition theme running from Vermeer to Van Gogh, with the issuing authority designation EUROSOUVENIR and signature of R. FAILLE as C.E.O. |
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| Reverse description | Standard Euro Souvenir reverse layout presenting six vignettes of iconic European monuments arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Tower of Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at the right. Printer and country-of-manufacture inscriptions appear in the lower margin. |
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Oberthur's 0-euro souvenir series has been running since 2015, produced under licence from the Banque de France and marketed through tourist sites across the country. These notes are legal tender in the technical sense — face value guaranteed by the ECB framework that permits them — but no vendor is obligated to accept them, and none do. The Carrières de Lumières at Les Baux-de-Provence is a disused limestone quarry turned immersive projection venue, best known for its floor-to-ceiling digital art installations cycling through different artists each season.
The Vermeer-to-Van Gogh programming referenced here ran in 2025. Oberthur prints the series on genuine banknote paper with security features intact, which is precisely what makes these attractive to collectors and commercially useless as currency.