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0 Euro - Les joutes de Sète
| Issuer | Eurosouvenier / UELJ (Union Européenne de Lutte et Jeux) |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural and cultural landmarks are arranged across the field: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Big Ben (London), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken Pis (Brussels). A vignette of the Mona Lisa appears to the right, with the '0 EURO' denomination and printer's imprint below. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR BIG BEN COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The "zéro euro" souvenir note format was formally authorised by the European Central Bank in 2015, allowing licensed printers to produce legal-tender-denomination notes — at face value zero — that could not be confused with circulating currency. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the few ECB-approved security printers for the programme, produces these on genuine banknote paper with the full suite of euro security features, including a holographic strip.
Sète's water jousting tradition, the joutes sétoises, dates to at least 1743 on the Canal Royal. The UELJ commissioned this issue as a collector piece tied to that specific competitive tradition rather than to a tourist site or civic institution — an unusually narrow subject for the series.