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0 Euro - Musée D'Arromanches D-Day et Bataille de Normandie
| Issuer | Musée D'Arromanches |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette reproduces a period black-and-white photographic image of the Arromanches artificial Mulberry harbour, with the pontoon bridge connecting the floating caissons to the Normandy shoreline clearly visible. The design commemorates the 80th anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 1944, and the Battle of Normandy. Inscriptions include the museum name, denomination, and issue series reference, with a guilloche underprint framing the composition. |
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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 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
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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.