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| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs / La Cartes des Régions |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents three large felines — a tiger, a lion, and a cheetah — representative of the zoological collection at Parc de l'Auxois, a 40-hectare park in Arnay-sous-Vitteaux, Côte-d'Or. The denomination '0' and 'EURO' appear in bold letterpress, flanked by guilloche underprint in the Eurosouvenirs format. The series code '2023-1' and designer credit 'R. FAILLE / C.E.O' are inscribed at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenirs reverse layout 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). A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right, with guilloche underprint throughout and printer's imprint at lower centre. |
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Parc de l'Auxois is a regional animal park in Arnay-sous-Vitteaux, Burgundy, running since the 1970s. The zero-euro souvenir note program, administered through licensed distributors like La Cartes des Régions, has issued hundreds of these pieces since 2015 — each site-specific, printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire on genuine banknote paper with a valid EURion constellation and holographic strip, making them technically indistinguishable from legal tender in construction if not in denomination. They do not circulate and were never intended to. Collectibility is driven almost entirely by print run size, which varies by venue and is rarely disclosed.