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| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs (UEBU) |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural vignettes arranged in panels — Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis — accompanied by a reproduction of the Mona Lisa portrait at right. Printer and country-of-manufacture inscriptions appear in the lower portion alongside the zero-denomination lettering. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program, administered by the Union Européenne des Billets de collection Uniques (UEBU) and printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire, has operated since 2015 as a legal collector instrument — technically valid currency under EU law, but issued at a face value that guarantees it will never circulate. The scheme is clever: no country bears redemption liability, no central bank is exposed, and Oberthur gets a steady contract printing items that go straight into albums.
Oberthur's facility in Chantepie, near Rennes, produces these using genuine banknote paper with watermark security — the same infrastructure that prints actual circulating notes for multiple African and European clients.