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0 Euro - Dinant
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the town of Dinant on the banks of the Meuse River, with the collegiate church of Notre-Dame and the citadel visible against the hillside. At right, a portrait of Adolphe Sax (1814–1894), native of Dinant and inventor of the saxophone, accompanied by a vignette of the instrument. Denomination numeral "0" and EUROSOUENIR inscription appear in guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DASBRANENBUGERTOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LATOUREIFFEL SAGRADAFAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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Dinant, a small Meuse valley town in Belgium, is the birthplace of Adolphe Sax, who invented the saxophone there in 1814. It was also the site of a notorious German atrocity in August 1914, when 674 civilians were massacred in the opening weeks of World War One. The EuroSouvenir program, launched by the European Central Bank's authorization in 2012, permits these zero-denomination collector notes as legal-format items — technically not legal tender, but printed to full security specification by Oberthur Fiduciaire, the same contractor behind numerous genuine euro-area issues.