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0 Euro - Marseille - Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir (UAAA) |
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| Year | 2018-2019 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Campanile belfry and gilded statue of the Virgin and Child atop the Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde, Marseille. Denomination "0" appears twice at left and right, with EUROSOUVENIR underprint and series designation "2018 - 4" below the main vignette. Issuer attribution R. FAILLE / C.E.O. / UEAA inscribed in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Composite vignette of six celebrated European landmarks arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa occupies the right portion, with denomination "0 €" and EUROSOUVENIR text, and the printer's imprint in the lower margin. |
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The 0 euro souvenir series was launched by the European Banknote Memory Organisation (EUBMO) in 2015, licensing local vendors to issue notes that are technically legal tender at face value — which is to say, worth exactly nothing in practice. Oberthur prints them to the same security specifications as circulating euro notes, including genuine intaglio printing and embedded security threads, which makes them genuinely difficult to counterfeit for a note no one would bother counterfeiting.
Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde has been a pilgrimage site since the 13th century. The current neo-Byzantine basilica dates to the 1850s, built under Napoleon III.