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0 Euro - Paris - Napoléon Bonaparte
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs / UEAV (Union Européenne des Antiquaires et Vendeurs) |
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| Year | 2016-2017 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a bronze equestrian statue of Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte in his distinctive bicorne, set within the Cour d'Honneur of the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris. Guilloche underprint frames the design, with the EUROSOUVENIRS denomination "0 EURO" and serial reference "2017 - 4" printed in the surround. |
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| Obverse lettering | NAPOLÉON BONAPARTE EUROSOUVENIR 2017 - 4 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R.FAILLE C.E.O. UEAV |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program launched in France in 2016, authorized under a European framework that technically permits member-state central banks to sanction commemorative currency-format items with a face value of zero — legally neither banknote nor bond, but printed to full security-note specifications. Oberthur Fiduciaire in Rennes produces them with the same intaglio and offset processes used for circulating currency, which is precisely the point: the collector pays for the authentication, not the denomination.
Napoléon was among the earliest and most-issued subjects in the Paris tourist series. The irony is deliberate — the man who established the Banque de France in 1800 rendered as a note worth nothing at all.