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0 Memo Euro Pairi daiza - the garden of the worlds
| Issuer | Euroscope |
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| Year | 2018 (2018-2020) |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green note in standard Memo Euro format with the EU flag at upper left and a large numeral '0' at centre. The central vignette shows a world map underprint overlaid with zoo animals including a giraffe, elephant, panda, gorilla, and orangutan. The Euroscope logo appears at lower right alongside the MEMO EURO logotype at bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | PAIRI DAIZA MEMO EURO (Translation: Pairi Daiza Zero Euro) |
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Pairi Daiza is a Belgian zoological park in Brugelette, Hainaut, and has leaned hard into commemorative merchandise — this zero-denomination "Memo Euro" sits squarely in that category. Euroscope produced a series of these souvenir fantasy notes for various European attractions, essentially selling the Enschedé name and security printing craft as the attraction itself.
Enschedé's involvement is the only numismatically interesting detail here. The Haarlem firm has printed legitimate currency for dozens of issuing authorities since the eighteenth century, and collectors of their production occasionally acquire these pieces as examples of the printer's work rather than for any issuing authority.