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0 Euro - Bodensee

Issuer EuroSouvenir
Year 2021
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Value 0 Euro (0 EUR)
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Obverse description Central vignette combines Lake Constance (Bodensee) landmarks in an engraved composite scene: a large monkey sculpture in the foreground, the Imperia statue, a medieval castle with lighthouse tower at right, and a Zeppelin airship in the upper sky. The large guilloché zero numeral occupies the left-centre, flanked by the EU flag with date code 2021-2 and the EuroSouvenir logo at lower left.
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Reverse description Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with six European architectural vignettes arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis. A vignette of the Mona Lisa appears at right, set against a multicolour guilloché underprint.
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EuroSouvenir's 0 Euro program, launched commercially around 2015, is printed to European Central Bank technical specifications by licensed security printers — Oberthur Fiduciaire among them — making these notes functionally indistinguishable from legal tender in paper quality and intaglio feel, despite carrying no monetary value whatsoever. The program exploits a quirk: because the denomination is zero, no central bank authorization is required for issue.

The Bodensee edition targets one of Germany's most visited tourist regions, a lake shared by Germany, Austria, and Switzerland — a geography that gives a zero-euro note a certain irony, since the Swiss franc circulates on one of its shores.

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