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0 Euro - Zhou En Lai
| Issuer | CNAF (Comité National des Associations Françaises) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Currency | Euro |
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| Reverse description | Composite vignette of iconic European landmarks arranged across the note: the Torre de Belém at left, Brandenburg Gate, the Colosseum, Eiffel Tower, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis at right. A vertical security thread runs through the centre, and a portrait watermark ghost image appears at far right. |
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| Protection type | Security thread |
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| Comments |
The zero-euro souvenir note program, launched in France around 2015, occupies a genuinely strange niche — legal-tender denomination, real security printing, no monetary value. CNAF commissioned this example as a commemorative piece honoring Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Premier who died in 1976 and whose early years were spent in France as a student and political organizer in the early 1920s. That French connection is the entire rationale for his appearing on a note issued under French institutional backing.
Oberthur's involvement lends it the same production standards as circulating currency — security thread included — which is precisely the point for the collector market these notes target.