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0 Euro - Monument Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan
| Issuer | AMAC (Association Monnaie et Collection) |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 0 Euro |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial ("Swallow Fort") on a hill in Yerevan, the stele and eternal flame commemorating the 1915 Armenian Genocide perpetrated under the Ottoman Young Turks government. The EUROSOUVENIER and AMAC inscriptions appear alongside the zero-denomination value and the series reference 2019-1. |
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| Reverse description | Six vignettes of iconic European monuments arranged across the note: Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Lisbon's Belém Tower, Paris's Eiffel Tower, Rome's Colosseum, Barcelona's Sagrada Família, and Brussels' Manneken Pis. A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears to the right, with the printer's imprint and zero-euro denomination lettering below. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program, administered through licensed distributors like AMAC, exploits a 2015 European Central Bank ruling that permits the production of legal-tender-format collector pieces denominated at zero — technically valid currency, practically worthless as a spending instrument. Oberthur Fiduciaire produces them to the same security specifications as genuine euro banknotes, including genuine eurion constellations and UV-reactive inks.
Tsitsernakaberd is the Armenian Genocide memorial complex in Yerevan, inaugurated in 1967 under Soviet rule — an unusual circumstance, given Moscow's general reluctance to validate national trauma narratives that complicated relations with Turkey.