0€ TORRE DE BELEM DASBRANENBUGERTOR COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR
The zero-euro souvenir note format was introduced around 2015 and has since been printed almost exclusively by Oberthur Fiduciaire under licensing arrangements with the EuroSouvenir program. Each municipal or institutional client commissions a run — typically 5,000 to 10,000 pieces — which are sold directly to collectors and tourists rather than entering any payment system. Euskirchen, a mid-sized town in the North Rhine-Westphalia district of the same name, joined a catalog that by 2023 had grown to several thousand different designs across Europe.
The hologram strip mirrors the security specification used on genuine euro banknotes, a deliberate choice that keeps the format within European Central Bank tolerance for legal-tender lookalikes while clearly marking the denomination as zero.
The zero-euro souvenir note format was introduced around 2015 and has since been printed almost exclusively by Oberthur Fiduciaire under licensing arrangements with the EuroSouvenir program. Each municipal or institutional client commissions a run — typically 5,000 to 10,000 pieces — which are sold directly to collectors and tourists rather than entering any payment system. Euskirchen, a mid-sized town in the North Rhine-Westphalia district of the same name, joined a catalog that by 2023 had grown to several thousand different designs across Europe.
The hologram strip mirrors the security specification used on genuine euro banknotes, a deliberate choice that keeps the format within European Central Bank tolerance for legal-tender lookalikes while clearly marking the denomination as zero.