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| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | MARSEILLE VALLON DES AUFFES EUROSOUVENIR 2017-2 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UELG |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR BIG BEN COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The Vallon des Auffes souvenir note belongs to the EuroSouvenir program launched in 2015, which licensed the official euro banknote design format — with ECB approval — for commemorative issues carrying a face value of zero. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of France's principal security printers, produced the series using genuine banknote-grade paper and intaglio printing, giving these notes a tactile quality indistinguishable from circulating currency to the casual hand.
The Vallon des Auffes itself is a small 19th-century fishing inlet in Marseille, largely unchanged in structure since the calanque was cut off from expansion by the construction of the Corniche Kennedy road above it in the 1860s.