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0 Euro - Technik Museum Sinsheim Tupolev TU-144
| Issuer | Technik Museum Sinsheim |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Size | 135 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | The right half of the note is occupied by a large intaglio-style vignette of the Tupolev TU-144 supersonic aircraft as displayed on outdoor exhibit at Technik Museum Sinsheim, rendered in purple-brown tones over a fine microtext guilloche underprint. To the upper left, the large numeral '0' appears in black letterpress, flanked by the European Union flag in blue and gold at the far left and a holographic security element at the upper right corner. The 'EURO SOUVENIR' logo in blue and orange occupies the lower centre, with the designer's signature 'R. FAILLE' and a serial number in black at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a composite vignette of iconic European landmarks rendered in violet-purple tones across the full width of the note, including the Torre de Belém (Lisbon), the Colosseum (Rome), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken-Pis statue (Brussels), all set against a fine guilloche underprint with scattered gold and coloured stars from the EU emblem. The denomination '0€' appears in white at the upper left, and a ghost portrait watermark-style image is visible at the right margin. The 'EURO SOUVENIR' logo in blue and orange is positioned at the lower right. |
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The TU-144 on display at Sinsheim is one of only a handful of airframes that survived the Soviet program's collapse, and one of just two outside Russia. Aeroflot operated the type on the Moscow–Alma-Ata route for less than a year before withdrawing it from passenger service in 1978 following reliability and fuel consumption problems — the aircraft burned roughly four times as much fuel per seat as Concorde. The Sinsheim example, construction number 77109, was flown to Germany in 1993 under its own power, the last known flight of any TU-144.
Oberthur Fiduciaire has printed the bulk of the European zero-euro souvenir series, and the hologram strip here meets the baseline security specification adopted across the program.