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0 Euro - The King of Madagascar Moric Benovsky
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir (MGAA) |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | THE KING OF MADAGASCAR MÓRIC BEŇOVSKŸ EUROSOUVENIR 2021-1 0 275TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY 20TH September 1746 - 23RD May 1786 MADAGASCAR EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. MGAA ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
| Reverse description | Six European landmark vignettes arranged across the note — Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Belém Tower (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels) — with a reproduction of the Mona Lisa at right. Printer's imprint and denomination appear in the lower portion. |
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Moric Beňovský — Slovak-born, Hungarian-raised, and by most accounts genuinely improbable — arrived in Madagascar in 1773 after escaping Russian captivity in Kamchatka, a journey he documented in memoirs that read more like fiction than history. The French colonial administration eventually appointed him governor of a settlement at Louisbourg on the northeast coast, though Paris grew suspicious of his ambitions and recalled him. He returned anyway, proclaimed himself king by some arrangement with local chiefs, and was killed by French troops in 1786. The precise terms of his "kingship" remain disputed by historians.
Oberthur Fiduciaire printed this souvenir note under the EuroSouvenir program, which issues these zero-denomination pieces as legal-design collectibles across European tourist and cultural sites.