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0 Euro - Atomium
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2017-2018 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ATOMIUM ATOMIUM - BRUSSELS EUROSOUVENIR 2017 - 1 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. ZEKG |
| Reverse description | Six vignettes of celebrated European landmarks are arranged across the note: the Brandenburg Gate, the Torre de Belém, the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis. A reproduction of the Mona Lisa appears at the right margin. The multicolour guilloche underprint carries the zero-euro denomination at upper left and the EUROSOUV / ENIR logotype at lower right. |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program was launched by the EuroSouvenir network in 2015 as a legal-tender-adjacent collectible — technically issued under a licensing arrangement that allows private entities to produce denominated euro notes for the souvenir trade, without any obligation from the ECB to honor them as payment instruments. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them to genuine banknote specification, which is precisely the point: the appeal is tactile legitimacy.
The Atomium, built for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, was never intended to be permanent. It has outlasted every other structure from that exposition.