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0 Euro - Bastogne War Museum
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BASTOGNE WAR MUSEUM 2016-1 0EURO SOUV ENIR R. Faille CEO ZEHP |
| Reverse description | Standard Euro Souvenir reverse with six European architectural vignettes: Brandenburg Gate, Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis arranged across the note, with a reproduction of the Mona Lisa at right. Inscriptions identify each monument and credit the printer. |
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Euro Souvenir notes have no monetary value and are issued solely as tourist collectibles, but the Oberthur printing gives them the same physical security architecture as genuine circulating currency — the hologram stripe here is functionally identical to those used on legitimate euro banknotes. Bastogne's choice of subject is hardly accidental: the town was the focal point of the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944–45, where the 101st Airborne's famous "Nuts!" reply to German surrender demands became one of the most quoted exchanges of the entire Western campaign.