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Paris
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a composite cityscape of Paris with the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, and Notre-Dame Cathedral against a purple and gold guilloche underprint. The EU flag vignette appears at upper left alongside the series code '2017-4', with a large '0' numeral at centre-left and the 'EURO SOUVENIR' logotype at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural landmarks arranged across the central vignette — the Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis — rendered in intaglio-style print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right, with the '0 EURO SOUVENIR' inscription and printer's imprint at lower centre. |
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Euro Souvenir notes are a commercial novelty series — not legal tender, not issued by any central bank, but deliberately formatted to evoke the euro aesthetic for the tourist market. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the major security printers in France with genuine banknote contracts to its name, produced this Paris edition, which gives it better print quality than the typical souvenir paper you'd find at a postcard stand.
Collectible primarily as a printing curiosity rather than a monetary artifact.