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0 Euro - Netherlands - Mondriaan classique
| Issuer | Netherlands |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Size | 135 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Violet-toned souvenir note with a fine guilloche underprint across the entire field. Centre-right carries a portrait vignette of the Dutch painter Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan against an abstract grid background evoking his signature De Stijl compositions, with his facsimile signature reproduced in the middle of the note. To the left, a large intaglio-style zero denominational numeral is set against a circle, flanked by a ring of twelve EU stars; the upper-left corner bears the Euro Souvenir programme flag logo with year code 2020-1. A holographic element appears in the upper-right corner, and the serial number in prefix PEAQ is printed at lower right alongside the CEO signature of R. Faille. |
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| Obverse lettering | NETHERLANDS - MONDRIAAN EUROSOUVENIR 2020-1 0 Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan 1872 - 1944 0 EURO SOUVENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. PEAQ |
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The souvenir zero-euro note program, administered by the European Banknote Memory Organization, has produced hundreds of tourist-market pieces since its 2015 launch — but the Mondriaan edition carries a specific irony worth noting. Piet Mondriaan was Dutch-born yet spent his most productive decades in Paris and New York, ultimately becoming an American citizen in 1940. A Netherlands-branded commemorative honoring an artist who largely defined himself against Dutch insularity is an odd editorial choice, however commercially sensible.
Oberthur's hologram strip is genuine EURion-adjacent security printing, which makes these notes technically non-reproducible despite carrying no monetary value.