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0 Euro - Utah Beach musée du débarquement
| Issuer | European Souvenir Banknote Association (ESBA) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows Allied soldiers advancing from a landing craft amid German beach obstacles (Czech hedgehogs and Belgian gates) on Utah Beach, rendered in purple-violet tones on a microtext guilloche underprint. The large intaglio-style zero numeral appears at left, flanked by the EU flag with the date «2021-3» and a circle of twelve gold stars. The EURO SOUVENIR logotype in blue and purple occupies the lower left, with the R. Faille C.E.O. facsimile signature and the UEDC serial prefix at lower right. |
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| Protection description | Holographic patch at upper right of obverse, displaying shifting reflective imagery. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program was launched in France in 2016 by the ESBA as a licensed commercial venture — the notes bear genuine euro formatting and pass through Oberthur Fiduciaire's security printing line, but hold no legal tender status anywhere. Utah Beach was among the earliest museum sites to adopt the format, and the Normandy landing sites collectively became some of the highest-selling issues in the program's first years. The hologram strip is the same optically variable device used on circulating euro notes, which is precisely why the Banque de France initially scrutinized the scheme before permitting it.