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0 Euro - Marignane - Musée Raimu
| Issuer | Musée Raimu, Marignane |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a portrait of Raimu (1883–1946), the celebrated French actor, against an underprint vignette of the Musée Raimu entrance façade in Marignane. Inscriptions naming the museum and souvenir euro appear in the surrounding guilloche border, with the face value "0" and year "2016" at left. |
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| 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 souvenir euro program, administered through a network of tourist sites and cultural institutions across France, began issuing these zero-denomination notes in 2015. Oberthur Fiduciaire — one of the few security printers with the technical clearance to reproduce the euro format — produces them under strict ECB aesthetic guidelines that prohibit any design capable of being mistaken for legal tender. Marignane's museum dedicated to the comedian and actor Jules Muraire, known universally as Raimu, was among the early adopters of the format in 2016.
Raimu died in 1946, never having seen himself ranked by Orson Welles as the greatest actor who ever lived.