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0 Pound - Cambridge King's Chapel & Bridge of Sighs
| Issuer | United Kingdom |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMBRIDGE - KING'S CHAPEL & BRIDGE OF SIGHS EUROSOUVENIR 2023-13 King's Chapel Bridge of Sighs Zero Pound R. FAILLE C.E.O. GBAD |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a composite vignette of six celebrated European monuments arranged across the note: Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, London's Big Ben, Paris's Eiffel Tower, Rome's Colosseum, Barcelona's Sagrada Família, and Brussels' Manneken-Pis. A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears at the right. The face value '£0' and denomination legend 'Zero Pound' are printed alongside the printer's credit 'PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE'. |
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The zero-pound note is a deliberately absurdist format that has found a surprisingly durable niche in British souvenir publishing since Thomas Pruski's The Peoples' Note Company popularized the concept. These are legal-look novelty items, not legal tender — but they are printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire, the same French security printer responsible for genuine banknotes across dozens of jurisdictions, which gives them a tactile authenticity that cheaper tourist paper cannot match.
The choice of Oberthur is what separates this from gift-shop ephemera. Collectors of modern fiscal paper occasionally track the series for exactly that reason.