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0 Euro - Nemery and Calmejane - Fort Boyard - La chasse au trésor
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette within a circular frame presents Fort Boyard fortress accompanied by a parchment, hourglass, and spider — emblematic props of the French television series. To the right, a bunch of keys and gold coins; to the left, a tiger's head and a cannon with cannonball. |
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| Reverse description | Left circular vignette presents a tiger's head guarding the treasure, while the right side of the note carries the fort, a bunch of keys, gold coins, a parchment, an hourglass, and a spider — motifs echoing the television programme's iconography. |
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Fort Boyard souvenir euros occupy a strange corner of the hobby — issued under the European Central Bank's official zero-denomination program, they are legal novelties rather than legal tender, yet they are printed on genuine cotton banknote paper by approved security printers. This particular piece ties to the long-running French television game show filmed on the fort itself, a 19th-century sea fortification originally built off the Charente-Maritime coast to defend the Rochefort arsenal, though it was obsolete before it ever fired a shot in anger.
Nemery and Calmejane are the credited designers. Collector demand for themed zero-euro issues has driven a secondary market that occasionally prices these above face — which, given the denomination, is not difficult.