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| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | MUSÉE LOUIS :-DE FUNÈS EUROSOUVENIR 2024-8 0 2024 ANNEE DES JEUX EN FRANCE musée LOUIS :-DE FUNÈS EURO SOUVENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UEQC |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents vignettes of six iconic European landmarks arranged across the note: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Belém Tower (Lisbon), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken-Pis (Brussels), set against a standard Euro Souvenir guilloche underprint. A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears at the right margin. The denomination '0 EURO' and printing credits are inscribed at lower centre. |
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Louis de Funès died in 1983, and the museum dedicated to him opened decades later at the Château de Clermont in Saint-Raphaël — a building he actually owned and lived in during the last years of his life. That biographical detail gives the venue an authenticity that most celebrity museums lack.
These zero-euro souvenir notes are printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire under license from the European Central Bank, which granted permission for the format precisely because the denomination removes any legal tender complications. Oberthur applies the same security printing standards used on circulating currency — including embedded strip and UV-reactive features — making the technical specification genuinely identical to a working banknote.