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0 Euro - Melun - Musée de la gendarmerie nationale
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir / Musée de la gendarmerie nationale |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | MUSEE DE LA GENDARMERIE NATIONALE SOUVENIR EURO 2017-1 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEND |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The Musée de la Gendarmerie Nationale in Melun holds a collection that traces the corps from its origins as the Maréchaussée — a royal mounted constabulary whose judicial and police functions predate the Revolution. The zero-euro souvenir format, introduced commercially around 2015 through EuroSouvenir, gave institutions like this an unusually effective piece of self-funding merchandise: legal tender in denomination, worthless in practice, but printed to the full security standards of Oberthur Fiduciaire, the same contractor responsible for a significant portion of actual French banknote production.
Oberthur's Chantepie facility prints these to genuine fiduciary specification — UV-reactive inks, correct substrate — which is precisely the point.