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0 Euro - Poitiers - Futuroscope
| Issuer | European Central Bank (souvenir issue) |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse lettering | FUTUROSCOPE EUROSOUVENIR 0 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. UECP |
| Reverse description | Allegorical vignette combining four iconic French monuments — the Pont du Gard, Mont-Saint-Michel, the Eiffel Tower, and Notre-Dame de Paris — set within a classical euro-note architectural underprint. A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at right. The '0 €' denomination and 'EUROSOUV ENIR' legend are printed at left. |
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Souvenir zero-euro notes became a commercially successful novelty in France around 2015, sold directly to tourists as mementos rather than tendered in any transaction. Oberthur produced them to genuine banknote specification — same cotton substrate, same security features — which created an odd regulatory footnote: the European Central Bank had to formally permit the "0 Euro" denomination to avoid the notes being treated as unauthorized currency instruments.
Futuroscope, the science and technology theme park outside Poitiers opened in 1987, was among the first wave of French attractions to adopt the format.