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0 Euro - Mini-Europe
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2017 |
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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 visitors posing beside a miniature reproduction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, with the Arc de Triomphe and Big Ben visible in the background. Large guilloche zero numeral at left with the EU flag and year date 2017-1; serial number in the lower right corner with facsimile signature of R. Faille, C.E.O. Overall violet and yellow colour scheme with fine guilloché underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | MINI-EUROPE EUROSOUVENIR 2017-1 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. ZEMD |
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The zero euro souvenir note scheme was launched in France in 2016 by Richard Faille, who secured a legal opinion confirming that a denomination of zero carried no monetary value and therefore required no central bank authorization to produce. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of Europe's established security printers, manufactures the series using genuine banknote paper and intaglio printing — the same tactile technique applied to circulating euro notes — which is precisely the point. The collectibility depends on the notes feeling authentic.
Mini-Europe is the Brussels park featuring scale reproductions of European monuments. This 2017 issue is one of hundreds of attraction-specific notes in the souvenir series.