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0 Euro - Les phares de Bretagne - 1869 Phare de Tévennec
| Issuer | Eurosouvenier (UEMW) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Size | 135 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Tévennec lighthouse, situated at the western extremity of Brittany (Finistère) in the Raz de Sein passage off Pointe du Van. Inscriptions include series title, denomination, and EUROSOUVENIER legend with the Eurosouvenier emblem and stars underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Composite vignette of six iconic European landmarks: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Tower of Belém (Lisbon), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken Pis (Brussels). A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears to the right, with denomination and printer's inscription below. |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program, administered by the UEMW (Union Européenne du Mémorable et du Wastebin, colloquially), has no monetary function whatsoever — these are collector pieces sold at tourist sites, printed to genuine banknote specification by Oberthur Fiduciaire to lend them credibility. Tévennec lighthouse, off the Raz de Sein in Finistère, was completed in 1875 and quickly acquired a grim reputation among its keepers: the isolation was so severe that French maritime authorities eventually permitted a keeper's wife to live on the rock — an almost unheard-of concession — after several men suffered psychological breakdown there.
The 1869 date in the note's title refers to the construction authorization, not the lighthouse's operational date.