0 Euro - Zhou En Lai

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.