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0 Euro Technik Museum Sinsheim - Mythos Alfa Romeo
| Issuer | Technik Museum Sinsheim |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a classic Alfa Romeo convertible in front view rendered in deep magenta intaglio-style print, with the circular Alfa Romeo emblem above. The large guilloche zero denomination numeral appears at left, flanked by the EU flag and date code "2019-5". A holographic security patch is visible at upper right, set against a pale yellow and rose multicolour underprint with scattered euro stars. |
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| Protection type | Hologram |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program, administered through Euro Banknote Memory and printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire, began gaining serious collector traction around 2015 when French tourist sites started commissioning runs. Technik Museum Sinsheim — one of Germany's largest private technical museums, holding an actual Concorde and a Tupolev Tu-144 on outdoor display — issued this note tied to its Alfa Romeo exhibition. The notes carry genuine security features precisely because Oberthur prints them on the same equipment used for circulating currency, a detail that distinguishes them from ordinary commemorative paper.
Collector demand for themed runs like this one tends to spike at release and drops sharply once the associated exhibition closes.