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| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central large numeral '0' in intaglio style against a guilloche underprint in mauve tones. Left side bears the European Union flag vignette; upper right carries a hexagonal cartouche with the year 2022 and a miniature locomotive motif. The central vignette depicts a model-railway landscape with a tunnel, bridge, and train from the Miniatur Wunderland exhibition. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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The EuroSouvenir programme, managed under licence from the European Central Bank, authorises the production of zero-denomination collector notes that carry the visual language of legal tender without actually being any. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of the few security printers with the ECB approval to produce them, handles the full run from its French facilities. The notes have no face value and no redemption rights — their status as "euros" is entirely ceremonial, a deliberate quirk of the licensing arrangement.
Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg is the world's largest model railway exhibition, a fact that makes it one of the more defensible subjects in the souvenir note series.