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0 Euro - Saint John Paul II
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir (PLAF) |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Composition | Paper (100% cotton paper) |
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| Obverse lettering | 100. ROCZNICA URODZIN ŚW. JANA PAWŁA II WADOWICE - TU WSZYSTKO SIĘ ZACZĘŁO EUROSOUVENIR 2020-1 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. PLAF ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (Translation: 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ST. JOHN PAUL II WADOWICE - WHERE IT ALL BEGAN EUROSOUVENIR 2020-1 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. PLAF * * * * *) |
| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with six European architectural vignettes: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Belém Tower (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels), arranged across the centre field. The Mona Lisa portrait appears at right, with the zero denomination and EURO SOUVENIR inscription at lower right on a guilloche-patterned ground. |
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The 0 Euro souvenir program was created by Richard Faille and launched in 2015, with EuroSouvenir (operating under the PLAF license framework) producing themed notes for collectors and tourist markets across Europe. They carry no legal tender status but are printed to genuine euro security specifications — Oberthur Fiduciaire produces them on the same cotton substrate used for circulating currency, which is precisely the point. The watermark is real. The feel is real. That's the commercial proposition.
Małgorzata Pławecka-Jasek's design commemorates Karol Wojtyła, who served as Pope from 1978 until his death in 2005 and was canonized by Pope Francis in April 2014 — the fastest canonization process in modern Church history, completed less than nine years after his death.