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0 Euro - Marseille - Îles du Frioul
| Issuer | European Central Bank (ECB) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Six inset vignettes of iconic European landmarks arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis. A portrait of the Mona Lisa is positioned at right. The composition is set against a multicolour guilloche underprint with 'PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE / MADE IN FRANCE' inscribed along the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Hologram |
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The souvenir 0 euro program, administered through licensed regional distributors rather than directly by the ECB, has issued hundreds of these legal-tender-by-technicality notes since the format was formally permitted around 2015. They circulate only as collectibles — no central bank will ever redeem them for face value, because there is no face value to redeem. Oberthur's involvement lends genuine security printing credentials to what is essentially a tourist product.
The Frioul archipelago sits roughly three kilometers off the Marseille waterfront, historically notable as a quarantine station where ships arriving from the Levant were held before entering port — a function it served from the seventeenth century through the cholera outbreaks of the nineteenth.