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| Issuer | Musée D'Arromanches |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | MUSÉE D'ARROMANCHES EUROSOUVENIR 2024-5 0 EURO SOUV ENIR 6 juin 1944 D-Day et Bataille de Normandie R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEAG ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenier reverse layout with vignettes of six iconic European landmarks arranged across the note: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Tower of Belém (Lisbon), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A reproduction of the Mona Lisa is placed to the right, with the zero-euro denomination and printer's imprint below. |
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Zero-euro souvenir notes occupy an odd corner of notaphily — legal in format, worthless by design, and printed to the same security specifications as genuine currency by Oberthur Fiduciaire under license from the European Central Bank. This example was issued by the Arromanches museum, which sits directly above what remains of the Mulberry B artificial harbour — the prefabricated British structure towed across the Channel in June 1944 and still partially visible offshore today.
The conceit of denominating a D-Day memorial piece at zero is, depending on your view, either apt or absurd.