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0 Euro - LILLE - VIEUX-LILLE
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the standard Euro Souvenir design, presenting six iconic European landmarks arranged across the note — the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Belém Tower (Lisbon), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken-Pis (Brussels) — rendered against a multicolour guilloche background. A portrait of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears on the right side. Printer and origin inscriptions are placed in the lower portion of the design. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUVENIR |
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Euro Souvenir notes are a French-led tourist collectible program, first launched around 2015, in which Oberthur Fiduciaire prints genuine banknote-specification paper pieces with zero face value — legal to produce precisely because they carry no monetary denomination that could complicate currency law. Vieux-Lille, the preserved Flemish baroque quarter of the city, is a reasonable subject for the series: the neighborhood narrowly escaped wholesale demolition in the mid-twentieth century and only recovered its current cachet after sustained restoration efforts from the 1970s onward.
Oberthur's involvement lends these pieces proper security paper construction, which is why they feel indistinguishable from circulating notes in hand.