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| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | SCHWEIZ EUROSOUVENIR 2022-CH 0 S35 SWITZERLAND Matterhorn EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. XEQA ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
| Reverse description | Six European landmark vignettes arranged across the note — Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis — over a fine multicolour guilloche underprint. A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right. The denomination "0€" is displayed at upper left, with printer and country-of-manufacture inscriptions at lower centre. |
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EuroSouvenir notes occupy an odd corner of notaphily — legal tender for zero euros, issued under a European Central Bank framework that permits national central banks to license commemorative collector pieces denominated at face values that make them impossible to spend. This FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 edition ties Switzerland to a tournament the Swiss national team actually qualified for, finishing in the round of sixteen before elimination by Portugal.
Oberthur Fiduciaire, the Rennes-based security printer, handles the bulk of EuroSouvenir production. Their involvement guarantees genuine security paper and proper intaglio work — these are not novelty items in the tourist-shop sense, even if the denomination renders them economically inert.