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0 Euro - Memoeuro - Etretat
| Issuer | Mémo Euro Scope |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 0 ETRETAT NORMANDIE MEMO EURO SCOPE |
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| Reverse lettering | EAAA205/1 MEMO EURO SCOPE 0 |
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Mémo Euro Scope's souvenir zero-euro notes occupy a curious commercial niche: legal in production because they carry no assigned face value and are thus exempt from counterfeiting statutes, yet printed by Enschedé — one of Europe's oldest and most technically rigorous security printers, active since 1703 — to the same specification as circulating currency. The Étretat issue trades on the Normandy coastal town's considerable art-historical draw, having attracted Monet, Courbet, and Maupassant in the nineteenth century.
Enschedé has printed banknotes for dozens of sovereign states; applying that infrastructure to a tourist memento is either a reassuring guarantee of quality or a mild absurdity, depending on your position.