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0 Euro - Aubagne - Capitale des santons de Provence
| Issuer | Souvenir Euro |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | AUBAGNE CAPITALE DES SANTONS DE PROVENCE SOUVENIR EURO 2016-3 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR Lou Tambourinaire et la Farandole Provençale Santons "Le Moulin à Huile" UEED R. FAILLE C.E.O. |
| Reverse description | Six iconic European architectural vignettes arranged across the note — the Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis — with a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa at right. Denomination "0 €" appears at upper left with "SOUVENIR EURO" split across two lines. Printer's imprint "IMPRIMÉ PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE" runs along the lower margin. |
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Aubagne's claim to the santons — the small painted clay figurines used in Provençal Christmas crèches — is genuine and long-standing, with the town hosting a dedicated santon fair since 1934. The "capitale des santons" designation is more civic branding than official title, but Aubagne's concentration of ateliers and its annual fair have made the label stick for decades.
Oberthur printed the entire early wave of these souvenir zeros, which began circulating through tourist offices and museum shops across France in 2015–2016. Legal tender in the technical sense, spent nowhere in practice.