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0 Euro Napoleon in Malta
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NAPOLEON IN MALTA THE GREAT SIEGE OF 1798 EUROSOUVENIR 2023-1 0 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. FEAZ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
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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 zero-euro souvenir note program, administered by EuroSouvenir and licensed by the Banque de France, uses genuine Oberthur Fiduciaire security paper and printing processes — the same contractor responsible for a significant share of actual euro banknote production. The notes are legal in the sense that counterfeiting them is still a criminal offense, but they carry no redemption value and were never intended to circulate.
Napoleon's connection to Malta is brief but consequential: he seized the island from the Knights of St. John in June 1798 during his Egyptian campaign, a bloodless takeover that lasted only two years before the British, aided by a Maltese uprising, displaced French forces in 1800.