0 Euro - Rochefort-sur-Mer - Le radeau de la Méduse

The "Radeau de la Méduse" souvenir note was issued by the marine museum at Rochefort because the city has a direct claim on the disaster: the frigate Méduse departed from Rochefort in June 1816 before running aground off the Mauritanian coast, setting off one of the most documented maritime catastrophes in French history. The raft, the court-martial, Géricault's painting — the whole sequence traces back to that port.

Oberthur's 0 Euro souvenir series, launched commercially around 2015, uses genuine banknote security paper and intaglio printing, which gives these tourist pieces more physical credibility than their face value suggests.