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0 Euro - Valletta Saluting Battery
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks: Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken-Pis arranged across the centre, with a reproduction of the Mona Lisa at right. Multicolour guilloche underprint frames the composition. |
| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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EuroSouvenir notes occupy a peculiar niche — legal in format, worthless by design, and entirely dependent on tourism for their existence. This example commemorates the Valletta Saluting Battery, a fortification on the Upper Barrakka Gardens that has fired ceremonial cannon salutes since the Knights of St. John used the site. The battery was decommissioned by the British, fell silent for decades, and was only revived in 2004 — so the tradition being commemorated is, in practice, younger than many of the tourists buying this note.
Oberthur Fiduciaire's involvement lends the physical object more production quality than its novelty status demands.