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0 Euro Pula
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Size | 135 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows two armoured gladiators in combat before the Pula Arena amphitheatre, rendered in intaglio-style engraving on a lavender guilloche underprint. The large denomination numeral "0" appears to the left, accompanied by the EU flag vignette and series date "2019-1". Serial number prefix HRAB and the R. Faille C.E.O. facsimile signature are printed at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | PULA EUROSOUVENIR 2019-1 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. HRAB |
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EuroSouvenir's zero-denomination pula note sits in an awkward but deliberate commercial niche — legal tender for exactly nothing, produced by a licensed euro printer and distributed through tourist outlets as a collectible souvenir. Oberthur Fiduciaire, the printer here, holds genuine ECB security printing contracts, which is precisely why these novelty issues carry the visual credibility they do despite having no monetary function whatsoever.
The pula is Botswana's national currency, introduced in 1976 to replace the rand at parity. The word means "rain" in Setswana — a blessing in a largely arid country.