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0 Euro Pope Pius XII
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Three-quarter bust portrait of Pope Pius XII in papal vestments at right, with a vignette of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore at centre-left against a lilac guilloche underprint. The large numeral "0" appears at left centre, flanked by the European Union flag and series date "2019-1" above. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DASBRANENBUGERTOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LATOUREIFFEL SAGRADAFAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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EuroSouvenir's 0 Euro series — produced under license from the European Central Bank and printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire — occupies a peculiar legal space: technically a genuine euro-denominated instrument in format, yet issued with no redemption value by design. Oberthur prints them to the same security specifications as circulating notes, including the characteristic feel of euro-spec cotton-linen substrate.
The choice of Pius XII as a subject remains contested. His conduct during the Holocaust — deliberate public silence while privately facilitating some Jewish escapes — has never been definitively adjudicated by historians, and his beatification cause at the Vatican has stalled repeatedly on exactly that question.