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0 Euro - Maintenon - Le château
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central medallion vignette portraying Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, set against a view of the Château de Maintenon in the Eure-et-Loir department, Centre-Val-de-Loire. Guilloche underprint frames the composition, with denomination numeral "0" and EUROSOUVENIRS lettering integrated into the design. |
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| Reverse description | Six vignettes of celebrated European monuments — the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels) — arranged across the note. A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears at right, with the denomination "0€" and imprint details below. |
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Souvenir zero-euro notes were authorized by the European Central Bank in 2015, allowing licensed printers to produce legal-format collector pieces for tourist sites across the eurozone. Oberthur Fiduciaire holds one of the handful of printing licenses issued for the program, giving these notes genuine security printing credentials — the same intaglio and offset techniques used on circulating currency.
The Château de Maintenon takes its name from Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon, the morganatic wife of Louis XIV, who acquired the estate in 1686. The unfinished aqueduct in the grounds was abandoned when the War of the League of Augsburg drained royal finances in 1688.