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0 Euro Château de Vaux le Vicomte
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir (UEBV) |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Large guilloche-framed numeral "0" at left centre against a polychrome vignette of the Château de Vaux le Vicomte façade rendered in warm violet and ochre tones. The European Union flag appears at upper left, with series date "2015-1" alongside; a holographic foil device is affixed at upper right. "EURO SOUVENIR" lettering in a block panel occupies the lower left, with the serial number prefix UEBV and a facsimile signature of R. Faille, C.E.O. at lower right. |
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| Protection description | A silver holographic foil sticker affixed to the upper right corner of the obverse. |
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The zero-euro souvenir note program launched in 2015, with Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte among the earliest sites to participate. The château has a particular claim on French monetary history: its builder, Nicolas Fouquet, was Louis XIV's finance superintendent, arrested in 1661 partly on the suspicion that he had diverted royal funds to construct the estate. The king's subsequent seizure of Fouquet's entire design team — Le Vau, Le Brun, Le Nôtre — for Versailles is one of the more brazen acts of architectural appropriation on record.
Oberthur Fiduciaire's involvement lends the series genuine security credentials, including the hologram strip that distinguishes these from simple novelty prints.