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0 Euro The quiet man
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette reproduces a photographic image of the John Wayne statue in Cong, County Mayo, Ireland, the village where the 1952 film was shot. The denomination '0 EURO' appears in intaglio-style lettering alongside the EuroSouvenir programme text and series identifier '2020-1'. |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural monuments arranged across the note — Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis — rendered in a multicolour vignette typical of the EuroSouvenir series. A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears on the right side, with the denomination '0€' in the underprint. |
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The "quiet man" zero euro souvenir note is one of several hundred themed issues produced under the EuroSouvenir program, which launched around 2015 and turned Oberthur's security printing infrastructure toward the tourist collectibles market. These notes carry genuine euro banknote security features — including the distinctive feel of cotton-fiber currency paper — but carry no legal tender status anywhere. The zero denomination was a deliberate legal workaround: EU regulations prohibit private entities from issuing instruments that could be mistaken for currency, so the face value makes the fiction explicit.