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0 Euro - Phare de la Coubre
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir / UEFV (Union Européenne des Fabricants de Vignettes) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the Phare de la Coubre lighthouse tower with its Fresnel lens at centre-right, set against a lavender guilloche underprint. The EU flag and a large zero numeral appear at left, with the EURO SOUVENIR inscription at lower centre and serial prefix UEFV at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Watermark incorporated into the paper substrate |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program launched commercially around 2015, with Oberthur Fiduciaire in Rennes handling the bulk of early production runs. These notes are legal curiosities — denominated at zero, they carry no redemptive value but are printed to genuine banknote specification, including watermarked paper, as a deliberate nod to authenticity rather than novelty.
La Coubre lighthouse, on the Charente-Maritime coast, stands near the site of the 1960 munitions ship explosion that killed over 75 people — one of the deadliest peacetime disasters in postwar France.