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0 Euro - Westkapelle Hoge licht
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Size | 135 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette portrays the Westkapelle Hoge Licht lighthouse tower rising above a panoramic aerial view of the village and coastline, rendered in fine intaglio-style engraving on a lilac guilloche underprint. The large intaglio zero numeral occupies the left-centre, flanked by the EU flag and the EuroSouvenir logo at lower left, with a circle of gold stars along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with six vignettes of European landmarks — Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis — arranged across the note on a multicolour guilloche underprint. The Mona Lisa portrait appears at the right, with the zero-euro denomination and printer's imprint at lower centre. |
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Westkapelle's lighthouse on the southwestern tip of Walcheren island in Zeeland has stood in various forms since the fifteenth century; the current brick tower, converted from a church tower, is one of the oldest functioning lighthouse structures in the Netherlands. The zero-euro souvenir format was introduced by EuroSouvenir around 2015 and has since become a minor collecting category in its own right — Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them to genuine euro security standards, including the correct paper substrate and UV-reactive features, which is partly what drives collector interest.
Walcheren was almost entirely flooded by Allied bombing in 1944, a deliberate tactical decision to dislodge German fortifications. The lighthouse survived.