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0 Euro - Château de Chambord
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Château de Chambord's iconic Renaissance façade with its distinctive double-helix staircase towers, set against a light guilloche underprint. Denomination '0' appears at left with 'EURO' below; 'CHÂTEAU DE CHAMBORD' inscribed above the vignette. 'EUROSOUVENIR' and date '2016 -1' appear within the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR BIG BEN COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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EuroSouvenir's zero-denomination series launched in France in 2016, with Chambord among the inaugural subjects. These notes carry all the security features of circulating currency — printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire under the same technical standards applied to legal tender — but were conceived entirely as collector pieces, sold at tourist sites for a few euros apiece. The European Central Bank explicitly permits them provided the face value reads zero, which neatly sidesteps counterfeiting law.
Chambord was a logical first-wave choice: the largest château in the Loire Valley, built under Francis I beginning in 1519, and state-owned since 1930.