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0 Euro - Maastricht
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural landmarks arranged across the note — the Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis — rendered in an engraved vignette style. A reproduction of the Mona Lisa appears at right, with the printer's inscription along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR BIG BEN COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program was launched in France in 2016 by Richard Faille, who pitched the concept partly on the observation that tourists routinely keep low-denomination banknotes as keepsakes rather than spending them. By printing notes with a face value of zero, the issuer sidesteps EU regulations governing legal tender while still using genuine security printing — Oberthur Fiduciaire produces these on the same equipment used for circulating currency, including intaglio printing and embedded security threads.
Maastricht's inclusion in the series is historically pointed: the 1992 Treaty of Maastricht is the founding document of the euro itself, making a zero-value euro note commemorating the city a genuinely odd loop of monetary self-reference.