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0 Euro - Mondriaan
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2020 |
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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 reproduces Piet Mondrian's oil painting 'De Rode Boom' (The Red Tree, 1909–1910), a Fauvist composition in blue, red, and yellow, with a gnarled trunk and sweeping branches against a deep blue ground. Denomination '0 EURO' appears at left within a guilloche underprint, alongside the EUROSOUVENIR imprint and series date '2020-2'. Signature of R. Faille, C.E.O., and PEAQ authentication mark are printed at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural monuments are arranged across the note — Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis — set within a guilloche underprint. A vignette of the Mona Lisa appears at right. Printer's imprint 'PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE / MADE IN FRANCE' is inscribed at lower centre alongside the '0 EURO' denomination. |
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The EuroSouvenir program, launched in 2015 as a licensed collector item endorsed by the European Central Bank, issued this note to mark the 150th anniversary of Piet Mondriaan's birth in 1872. Oberthur Fiduciaire produced the run in France with the same security substrates used for circulating currency — watermark, security thread, the works — giving the zero-denomination format a physical credibility that most souvenir notes lack entirely.
Mondriaan was Dutch, not French, which makes the Oberthur connection incidental rather than symbolic.