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0 Euro - Toulouse - La cité de l'espace
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs (UEFC - Union Européenne des Fabricants de Coffrets) |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette composed of the Ariane rocket launcher, a spacewalking astronaut, and the Mir space station, referencing the Cité de l'Espace science and culture park in Toulouse. The denomination '0' appears in numerals with 'EURO' lettering, framed by guilloche underprint. Inscriptions include 'LA CITE DE LESPACE', 'EUROSOUVENIRS', series identifier '2016-1', and the issuer initials 'UEFC' with signatory reference 'R. FAILLE C.E.O.' |
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| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenirs reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks: the Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis. A reproduction of the Mona Lisa portrait appears at right, with the denomination '0€' and printer's imprint 'IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE' below. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program launched in France in 2016, with Oberthur Fiduciaire — one of the few security printers outside the Eurosystem's official supply chain — producing the series under license from the UEFC. La Cité de l'espace in Toulouse was among the inaugural batch of tourist sites to commission a note, which was a deliberate commercial move: the attraction opened in 1997 and had long sold conventional merchandise, but the notes proved unexpectedly popular as collectibles, prompting repeated reissues with altered serial prefixes that now constitute minor variants in their own right.