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0 Euro - Zoo Aquarium Madrid; gorilla
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-style vignette of a silverback gorilla occupying the right half of the note against a guilloche underprint in purple and orange tones. The European Union flag and large numeral "0" appear at left, with a ring of stars and the series code "2019-2" above. A holographic security element is affixed at upper right, and the CEO signature of R. Faille with serial prefix VEAE appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with six iconic European landmarks rendered in intaglio style: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A vignette of the Mona Lisa appears at right, all set against a fine guilloche underprint with the denomination "0€" at upper left. |
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EuroSouvenir notes occupy a peculiar legal niche: they are issued under a European collector framework that permits zero-denomination pieces to carry the euro visual identity without constituting legal tender. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the few security printers with the accreditation to produce euro-format material outside the ECB's own currency runs, handles the bulk of this series. The Madrid Zoo Aquarium issued this particular piece as a visitor souvenir in 2019, one of dozens of institution-specific variants that differ only in the central vignette and issuing venue text.
The hologram strip meets the collector program's minimum security specifications — enough to discourage crude copying, not enough to matter monetarily.