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0 Euro - Santa Luzia
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | The right-hand portion of the note carries a detailed intaglio-style vignette of the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Santa Luzia) at Viana do Castelo, Portugal, rendered in deep burgundy tones against a pale lavender guilloche underprint. The large numeral '0' appears in bold letterpress to the left of centre, flanked on the upper left by the EU flag vignette and the series date '2022-2'. A ring of twelve stars in alternating gold and blue frames the central field, and the 'EUROSOUVENIR' logo block is positioned at the lower left alongside a facsimile signature and the alphanumeric serial prefix MECJ. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse follows the standard EuroSouvenir layout, presenting six iconic European architectural monuments arranged across the centre field: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels), all rendered in fine-line intaglio against a multi-colour guilloche underprint. The portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at the right margin. The denomination '0€' and the printer's credit 'PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE / MADE IN FRANCE' are inscribed at the lower portion of the note. |
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Santa Luzia is a hilltop sanctuary above Viana do Castelo in northern Portugal, and its inclusion in the EuroSouvenir program places it alongside hundreds of regional European landmarks that have found a second life on legal-tender-format novelty notes since the program launched around 2015. These zero-denomination pieces carry no monetary value but are issued under a framework that requires genuine euro-format specifications — hence Oberthur Fiduciaire's involvement, a security printer with deep roots in French banknote production and a client list that has included the Banque de France itself.
Oberthur's Chantepie facility handles much of the EuroSouvenir output, meaning the physical quality of the substrate typically matches commercial banknote paper.