0 Euro - Marine-Ehrenmal Laboe & Technisches Museum U 995

The 0 Euro souvenir note program, administered through various European issuers and printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire, has no legal tender status but is produced to full ECB-specification security standards — including embedded security thread — which is precisely why customs authorities occasionally flag them. This example was commissioned by the Deutscher Marinebund e.V., the German Naval Association founded in 1891, tied to the Laboe Naval Memorial and the U 995, a Type VIIC/41 submarine beached at Laboe since 1965 and one of only a handful of surviving World War II U-boats anywhere in the world.