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0 Euro - Les phares de Bretagne - 1902 Phare de l'île Vierge
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir (UEMW) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the tall granite tower of the Phare de l'île Vierge (1902) with a smaller lighthouse at its base and sailing vessels in the foreground, set against a purple guilloche underprint. The Breton flag (Gwenn-ha-du) waves to the right, while a large intaglio-style '0' numeral and the EuroSouvenir logo appear at left. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with vignettes of six iconic European monuments arranged across the note: the Brandenburg Gate, Torre de Belém, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis. The Mona Lisa portrait appears at right, all set on a multicoloured guilloche underprint. |
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The Phare de l'Île Vierge, completed in 1902 off the Breton coast near Lannilis, is the tallest traditional lighthouse in Europe at 82.5 metres — a fact that gives this souvenir note more substance than most in the EuroSouvenir series. Oberthur Fiduciaire, which handles genuine security printing contracts across multiple countries, produces these collector pieces with the same intaglio infrastructure used for circulating issues, which is precisely the point: the zero-denomination format, introduced under EU tolerance for novelty items, legally sidesteps counterfeiting law by carrying no face value.