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0 Euro - Pontmain - L'apparition 2
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Virgin Mary in a blue halo with arms outstretched above a house, flanked by four candles; the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Pontmain occupies the left margin. Five blue five-pointed stars arranged vertically at right mark the 5th anniversary of the 0 Euro souvenir series. Denomination and issuer legends printed in intaglio-style lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELÉM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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EuroSouvenir notes occupy an odd niche — legal in the sense that the European Central Bank permits zero-denomination collector pieces, but never intended to circulate. This one commemorates the 1871 apparition at Pontmain, a village in Mayenne where a group of children reportedly saw a vision of the Virgin Mary above a local barn during the Franco-Prussian War. The Prussian advance halted shortly after, a coincidence the Church later treated as sufficient grounds for beatification of the site in 1876.
Oberthur Fiduciaire, the printer, has produced French security documents since the nineteenth century — an appropriate choice for a note tied to that conflict.