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0 Euro - Lisboa Fernando Pessoa 1888-1935
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries vignettes of six celebrated European landmarks — the Brandenburg Gate, Torre de Belém, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis — arranged across a fine guilloche underprint. The Mona Lisa appears at right as an additional cultural reference, with the denomination "0€" and printer's inscription below. |
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| Protection description | Holographic foil patch at upper right of obverse |
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The 0 Euro souvenir program launched in France around 2015 and quickly spread across European tourism markets as a licensed collectible — Oberthur Fiduciaire prints these to full banknote specification, including the holographic strip, on the same substrate used for circulating currency. They are legal tender in the technical sense that the ECB sanctioned the denomination, but no retailer is obligated to accept them and none do. The entire print run is sold at a premium directly to collectors and tourists.
Pessoa spent most of his productive life in Lisbon, dying there in 1935, and was largely unknown outside Portugal until decades after his death.