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0 Euro - Fort Eben-Emael
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2021-2024 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | FORT EBEN-EMAEL EUROSOUVENIR 2021-1 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. ZEBG * * * * * |
| Reverse description | Six European architectural landmarks are arranged across the note in vignette form: the Brandenburg Gate, the Tower of Belém, the Eiffel Tower, the Colosseum, the Sagrada Família, and the Manneken Pis. A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right. Multicolour guilloche underprint frames the composition throughout. |
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Fort Eben-Emael, built by Belgium between 1931 and 1935 to guard the Albert Canal and the Dutch border, fell to a German glider assault on 10 May 1940 — seventy-eight paratroopers neutralized a garrison of over 1,200 men in under twenty-four hours, a humiliation that prompted significant rethinking of fixed fortification doctrine across NATO planning circles for decades afterward.
The EuroSouvenir program issues these zero-denomination notes under license as legal collector pieces, printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire on genuine banknote paper with a hologram strip to meet the program's authentication standards. They carry no monetary value but are technically indistinguishable in construction from circulating issues.