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0 Euro - Lion de Belfort - Auguste Bartholdi
| Issuer | Eurosouvenir (UEDS) |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Size | 133 x 72 mm |
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| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenirs reverse with vignettes of four iconic French monuments: the Pont du Gard, Mont-Saint-Michel, the Eiffel Tower, and Notre-Dame de Paris, arranged across the note. A reproduction of the Mona Lisa appears at right. The denomination "0€" is printed at upper left within a guilloche underprint. |
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| Signature(s) | R. Faille (C.E.O., UEDS) |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program was launched in France in 2015 by the Union Européenne des Droits de Souvenirs, with Oberthur Fiduciaire producing the notes to the same security specifications used for genuine euro banknotes — watermark, security thread, UV-reactive inks. The denomination renders them legally unambiguous: worthless as currency, collectable by design.
Bartholdi sculpted the Belfort lion between 1875 and 1880 as a direct commemoration of the town's resistance during the Franco-Prussian War siege of 1870–71, when a garrison of 17,000 French troops held off a Prussian force three times that size for over 103 days. The same sculptor completed the Statue of Liberty six years later.