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| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Reverse description | Violet and multicolour reverse with intaglio-style vignettes of six iconic European landmarks arranged across the full field: the Brandenburg Gate, Torre de Belém, Colosseum, Eiffel Tower, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis. A guilloche underprint with microtext fills the background, with EU stars in the upper register and the EURO SOUVENIR logotype at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DASBRANENBUGERTOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LATOUREIFFEL SAGRADAFAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The 0 Euro souvenir program, administered through the Euro Souvenir Association and printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire in France, began in 2015 as a licensed novelty series. The notes conform to legal tender dimensions and security paper specifications closely enough to trigger vending machine validators — a known nuisance that prompted several European transit operators to update their sensor thresholds.
This 2021 Italian healthcare edition was issued during or immediately after the peak COVID-19 period, which gives it an obvious commemorative motive beyond generic souvenir tourism. Oberthur's production quality on these runs is consistent with their banknote work — UV-reactive fibers, intaglio-adjacent printing — which is precisely what makes the zero-denomination format legally permissible rather than counterfeit-adjacent.