Catalog
| Issuer | Förderverein Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum Kommern e.V. |
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| Printer | Euroscope |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, rendered in the same green-on-yellow-green colour scheme, presents a vignette of the Marktplatz Rheinland scene from the museum, centred on a small rendered building bearing the sign 'MVK Milch Bar' with period street furniture and a vintage automobile in the foreground. Additional period buildings with a lamp post occupy the left side of the composition. The serial number appears at upper right alongside the Euroscope logo, and a microtext '0' numeral is positioned at lower right; the prefix 'EAAA216/1' is printed vertically along the left edge. |
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| Protection description | Holographic foil patch in the form of a globe motif applied at the upper right of the obverse. |
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| Comments |
The Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum in Kommern, operated under the LVR (Landschaftsverband Rheinland), is one of the largest open-air museums in Germany, preserving reconstructed rural Rhineland architecture from several centuries. This zero-denomination memo note was issued by the museum's support association — the Förderverein — as a collector's souvenir rather than any circulating medium, a format that became common among German regional institutions in the early euro years as a low-cost membership premium and fundraising tool.
Euroscope, a specialist in promotional euro-format items, supplied the hologram strip — a deliberate nod to genuine euro security without any legal tender pretense.