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0 Euro Napoleon in Malta
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Napoleon Bonaparte in uniform, bust facing slightly left, flanked to the right by a vignette of tall-masted warships and landing craft at sea, evoking the 1798 French expedition to Malta. A large intaglio-style zero numeral occupies the left field, with the EU flag and EuroSouvenir logo at lower centre, set against a purple and gold guilloche underprint with a ring of twelve stars. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). The Mona Lisa portrait appears at right, all set against a multicolour guilloche underprint with the denomination "0€" at upper left. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program, administered by EuroSouvenir and licensed by the Banque de France, uses genuine Oberthur Fiduciaire security paper and printing processes — the same contractor responsible for a significant share of actual euro banknote production. The notes are legal in the sense that counterfeiting them is still a criminal offense, but they carry no redemption value and were never intended to circulate.
Napoleon's connection to Malta is brief but consequential: he seized the island from the Knights of St. John in June 1798 during his Egyptian campaign, a bloodless takeover that lasted only two years before the British, aided by a Maltese uprising, displaced French forces in 1800.