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0 Euro Crète - Hellas
| Issuer | Souvenir banknote issued for the Crète - Hellas tourist market |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a reconstructed façade of the Minoan Palace of Knossos, flanked by a bull's head rhyton rendered in intaglio style, with the Phaistos Disc to the right. The inscription CRETE - HELLAS appears at upper left, with the denomination 0 EURO below, and a row of stars at the base forming the Euro-series underprint motif. |
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| Obverse lettering | CRETE - HELLAS 2022-1 0 EURO SOUVENIR R FAILLE C.E.O. YEAD ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
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Oberthur's 0 euro souvenir program, launched around 2015 in partnership with the European Banknote Memory Project, produces these notes to rigorous security standards — watermarks, holograms, and serial numbers — despite carrying no monetary value whatsoever. The printer's involvement lends them a technical authenticity that straight novelty items lack, which is precisely why they collect at all.
The Crète - Hellas issue is one of several hundred regional and tourist-site variants Oberthur has produced for the French and broader European market. No two print runs are guaranteed identical in serial numbering format.