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0 Euro - Pontmain - L'apparition 4
| 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 apparition within a blue halo, holding a cross, above a house; the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Pontmain at left. Five blue five-pointed stars in a vertical row at right mark the 5th anniversary of the 0 euro souvenir series. Issued to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1871 apparition at Pontmain, Mayenne. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Belém Tower (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A vignette of the Mona Lisa appears at right. |
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Pontmain, a village in Mayenne, became a pilgrimage site after an 1871 apparition reported by local children during the Franco-Prussian War — Prussian forces halted their advance toward the town shortly after, a coincidence that drove the Vatican's subsequent approval of the apparition in 1872. This note is the fourth in a souvenir series documenting that event, issued under the EuroSouvenir program, which licenses zero-denomination legal-curiosity notes to tourist and religious sites across Europe.
Oberthur Fiduciaire printed it — a firm with genuine banknote credentials, which gives these souvenir pieces better security feature integration than most commemorative paper.