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0 Euro - Oradour sur Glane
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir (UEES) |
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| Year | 2016-2017 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Vignette at right depicts the ruins of the Oradour-sur-Glane martyr village, including the bombed-out church tower and a burnt-out Citroën 2CV automobile in the foreground, rendered in purple-toned intaglio. A large guilloche zero occupies the left-center, flanked by the EU flag and a boxed bilingual inscription. The serial number prefix UEES and the signature of R. Faille (C.E.O.) appear at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Standard Euro Souvenir reverse with six vignettes of iconic European landmarks arranged across the note: the Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis. A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right, with the denomination and issuer inscriptions in the center. |
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On 10 June 1944, ten days after the Allied landings in Normandy, an SS Panzer division massacred 642 residents of Oradour-sur-Glane and burned the village to the ground. The ruins were preserved by presidential decree as a permanent memorial — untouched since 1944, which is why the village still exists to be commemorated on a souvenir note at all.
The Euro Souvenir program, administered by UEES, licenses these zero-denomination pieces as legal-format collectibles printed to genuine euro security specifications by Oberthur. They carry no monetary value but must meet strict ECB visual differentiation requirements to avoid counterfeiting concerns.