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| Issuer | Euroscope (Memo Euro) |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the modern Zeebrugge harbour master's office, a stepped glass-and-concrete tower set against a green guilloche underprint, with a row of four traditional stepped-gable houses at lower right and a large cruise ship at centre right. The EU star circle appears at left, the denomination '0' is printed twice at left and lower-left, and the 'MEMO EURO SCOPE' logotype appears at bottom centre with the toponym ZEEBRUGGE beneath. |
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| Reverse description | Composite vignette of iconic European landmarks arranged across the full width of the note: a Gothic cathedral at far left, the Brussels Atomium, Big Ben with a vertical holographic security strip, the Eiffel Tower, a Dutch windmill, and the Reichstag at lower centre, all printed in green intaglio-style on a fine guilloche underprint. Musical notation with a treble clef appears in the upper right quadrant, and the 'MEMO EURO SCOPE' logotype is at lower left. |
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Memo Euros are a Dutch-produced novelty series issued by Euroscope, printed by Enschedé in Haarlem — the same house responsible for genuine euro banknotes for several issuing central banks. They carry no monetary value and are not legal tender anywhere, but the quality of substrate and security features, including a genuine hologram strip, has occasionally caused confusion at point-of-sale terminals in Belgium and the Netherlands.
The Zeebrugge edition commemorates the North Sea port, one of Europe's busiest container terminals and the site of the 1987 Herald of Free Enterprise disaster.