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0 Euro Karneval-Fasching 2021
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a carnival jester in a diamond-patterned harlequin costume and a masked face, set against a purple and gold guilloche underprint. The EU flag vignette appears at upper left alongside series code, with a holographic security patch at upper right. German-language carnival mottos are inscribed to the right of the central figure. |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural landmarks are arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Belém Tower (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels), all set over a multicolour guilloche underprint. The Mona Lisa portrait vignette appears at right. Denomination numeral and EuroSouvenir logotype are repeated in the lower register. |
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EuroSouvenir's zero denomination collector notes occupy a legal grey area by design — they carry all the visual hallmarks of genuine euro banknotes and are printed by licensed security printers, yet their face value renders them non-monetary and therefore outside ECB regulatory jurisdiction. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the major contracted printers for actual euro production, handles a significant portion of this souvenir series, which gives the paper and hologram quality a credibility that cheaper novelty issues lack.
The 2021 Karneval/Fasching issue targets the German-speaking carnival market, where Fasching celebrations in Bavaria and Austria and the Rhineland Karneval tradition operate as distinct regional phenomena despite the shared theme.