Catalog
0 Euro - Paris - Arc de Triomphe étoiles décalées
| Issuer | Centre des Monuments Nationaux |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Arc de Triomphe viewed along the axis of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées from Place Charles-de-Gaulle (formerly Place de l'Étoile), Paris. This second 2025 variant is distinguished by offset star motifs surrounding the monument, differentiating it from the earlier release. Inscriptions identify the monument, issuer, denomination, and the printing authority, with the designation EUROSOUVENIR 2025-2 indicating its series position. |
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| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenir reverse layout with vignettes of six iconic European monuments 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. Printer and country-of-manufacture inscriptions are present in the lower portion. |
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The "étoiles décalées" designation — shifted stars — marks this as a deliberate production variant within the Arc de Triomphe souvenir zero euro series, distinguished from the standard issue by the misaligned star pattern in the security background. Whether this originated as a controlled variant released to drive collector demand or as a genuine press anomaly that Oberthur and the CMN decided to regularize after the fact is a question the issuing authority has never fully clarified.
Oberthur Fiduciaire prints these on genuine banknote paper with authentic security features, which is precisely why French customs and some eurozone border officials have occasionally flagged them despite the zero denomination.