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0 Euro - Paris - Arc de Triomphe
| Issuer | Centre des Monuments Nationaux |
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| Year | 2022-2026 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Arc de Triomphe as seen from the axis of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, rising above Place Charles-de-Gaulle. Eurosouvenier denomination '0 EURO' printed in the lower field alongside issuer inscription 'CENTRE DES MONUMENTS NATIONAUX' and series date '2022-4'. |
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| Reverse description | Six vignettes of iconic European monuments arranged across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Belém Tower (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels). A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears to the right. |
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The Centre des Monuments Nationaux began issuing these souvenir zero-euro notes in 2015 as a revenue-generating scheme for heritage sites — they are produced by Oberthur Fiduciaire to the same technical specification as genuine euro banknotes, including the security thread and watermark. They are legal curiosities: denominated at zero, backed by nothing, and yet manufactured to the same anti-counterfeiting standard as currency that actually circulates. The ECB has tolerated the format, though it sits in a regulatory grey zone that has never been formally resolved.