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0 Euro PARIS - Les Champs-Elysées
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir / EEIG Euro Banknote Memory |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural landmarks are rendered as colour vignettes across the central field: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Big Ben (London), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels). A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears at the right. The "EURO SOUVENIR" logotype and the printer's imprint are inscribed at lower centre. |
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| Protection description | Holographic foil stamp affixed at upper-right corner of obverse |
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The zero euro souvenir note was introduced in 2016 by Euro Banknote Memory, a European Economic Interest Grouping, as a legal-denomination collectible printed to official euro security specifications. Oberthur Fiduciaire in Rennes produces these on genuine banknote paper with a hologram strip, meaning they pass basic security checks despite carrying no monetary value. The European Central Bank formally sanctioned the format precisely because issuing a note denominated at zero creates no monetary liability.
The Paris – Champs-Élysées issue was among the earliest in the series, when collector demand was still being tested. It sold out faster than the organizers anticipated.