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0 Euro - Schloss Oberhausen
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents Oberhausen Castle (Schloss Oberhausen) with the LudwigGalerie, overlaid by the spiralling steel arches of the Rehberger Brücke. The EU flag appears at upper left, a large guilloche zero at centre-left, and the EURO SOUVENIR logotype in blue and purple at lower centre. Serial prefix XEBY and the facsimile signature of R. Faille, C.E.O., are at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Six European landmark vignettes are arranged across the centre field: Brandenburg Gate, Torre de Belém, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis. A reproduction of the Mona Lisa appears at right. Printer attribution and the EURO SOUVENIR logotype are set within a fine guilloche underprint. |
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Oberthur Fiduciaire produced this souvenir zero-euro note under the EuroSouvenir program, the collector series launched in 2015 that repurposed genuine banknote printing infrastructure — security thread, watermark, intaglio-quality stock — to issue legally denominated but monetarily valueless notes tied to tourist sites. Schloss Oberhausen, a neo-Gothic castle in the Ruhr city of Oberhausen, is better known today as a venue for cultural events than as aristocratic architecture, having been repurposed extensively through the twentieth century.
The series intentionally mimics the physical credibility of circulating currency, which has made authentication of the souvenir notes themselves an occasional problem for retailers unfamiliar with the program.