0 Euro - Lisboa Fernando Pessoa 1888-1935

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.