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aquarium de lyon
| Issuer | Billet Royal |
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| Year | 2023 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with a large guilloché numeral '0' at centre-left, flanked by a French tricolour flag vignette above; the right half carries an underwater scene with an octopus, clownfish, a leopard shark and additional fish against a background of yellow euro stars. The crowned 'BR' escutcheon watermark appears as an underprint at centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a panoramic vignette of seven world-famous landmarks arranged across the note, including the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Pyramids of Giza and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, with a portrait of Albert Einstein positioned at the right. Euro-star underprint and guilloché patterns fill the background in characteristic zero-euro souvenir style. |
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Fonderie Saint Luc, a Belgian specialty press with roots in fine-art printing, produced this novelty admission or souvenir piece for the Aquarium de Lyon under the Billet Royal label — a small French publisher that issues decorative banknote-format items for tourist sites and cultural venues. These are not legal tender and carry no monetary authority; they circulate as collectibles or keepsakes rather than currency, which puts them in an odd category for serious notaphilists but makes them genuinely interesting as printed ephemera. The watermark inclusion on a non-monetary piece is an unusual touch, suggesting Fonderie Saint Luc used security-grade stock rather than standard commercial paper.