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0 Euro - Anduze - Train à vapeur des Cévennes
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a North-British Locomotive Company 140 C 27 steam locomotive in three-quarter view traversing the Cévennes line between Anduze and Saint-Jean-du-Gard. Denomination '0 EURO' appears in two registers with EuroSouvenir programme lettering and guilloche underprint. Date '2016 - 1' and initials 'R. FAILLE C.E.O.' inscribed at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural vignettes arranged across the note: the Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis, each labelled in letterpress. A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears at the right margin, with '0 EURO' denomination and EuroSouvenir imprint at lower centre. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program launched in France in 2016, with Oberthur Fiduciaire in Rennes producing the entire initial run under license from the European Central Bank, which permits reproduction of euro-style notes provided they carry a face value of zero and cannot be mistaken for legal tender. The Train à Vapeur des Cévennes, running between Anduze and Saint-Jean-du-Gard through the Gardon valley, is one of France's better-preserved narrow-gauge steam railways, originally part of a mining and agricultural network before tourist operators revived it in 1964.
These notes sold faster than initial stock projections at many sites — the Anduze issue reportedly sold out within its first season.