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0 Euro - Unesco-Weltkulturerbe Wartburg
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse lettering | UNESCO-WELTKULTURERBE WARTBURG EURO SOUVENIR 0 2017-4 R. PAILLE C.E.O. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0 € EURO SOUVENIR IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program, launched commercially around 2015 by Richard Faille's company Euro Souvenir, occupies a legal grey area that is genuinely curious: these notes are technically valid legal tender under European law — the ECB has never prohibited the denomination — but no merchant is obligated to accept them, and none do. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of France's serious security printers, produces them with full banknote-grade specifications, which is either reassuring or absurd depending on your position on the whole enterprise.
The Wartburg, a medieval castle above Eisenach in Thuringia, earned its UNESCO designation in 1999. Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German there while in hiding in 1521–22, a stay with genuine consequences for both the German language and the Reformation.