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0 Euro - Nancy - Place Stanislas et art nouveau.
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs (ECS) |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a "Berluze" vase by the Manufacture Daum against a background of the ornate wrought-iron gates and façade of Nancy's Place Stanislas, rendered in Art Nouveau style. Denomination "0 EURO" appears to the right within a guilloche underprint. Serial prefix "2016-1" and the Eurosouvenirs oval cartouche are inscribed in the upper register. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR BIG BEN COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The Eurosouvenirs program launched in 2016 as a joint initiative between the European Central Bank and participating souvenir vendors, authorizing the production of legal-tender-format notes with a face value of zero — technically spendable but practically worthless as currency, which was entirely the point. Oberthur Fiduciaire in Rennes, one of the few security printers with a genuine ECB-approved banknote production relationship, handled the physical printing, giving these tourist items a construction quality identical to circulating euro notes.
Nancy's Place Stanislas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, was among the earliest subjects chosen for the French regional series. The art nouveau angle references the city's particular role in that movement — Nancy was arguably its most concentrated French center outside Paris at the turn of the twentieth century.