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0 Euro - Vincent van Gogh
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Size | 135 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette reproduces Van Gogh's oil painting 'The Starry Night' (1889), held at New York's Museum of Modern Art, rendered in vivid blue and yellow tones across the note face. The denomination '0 EURO' appears in large numerals, flanked by guilloche underprint elements and EuroSouvenir branding. Inscriptions include 'VINCENT VAN GOGH' and 'DE STERRENACHT' above the vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries vignettes of six iconic European monuments: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Belém Tower (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken-Pis (Brussels), arranged across the face. A portrait of the Mona Lisa appears at the right. Printer's imprint 'PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE / MADE IN FRANCE' is present at the lower margin. |
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EuroSouvenir's zero-euro collector notes exist because a 2014 EU ruling clarified that notes with a face value of zero do not constitute legal tender and therefore fall outside the regulatory framework governing euro banknote issuance — a loophole that spawned an entire souvenir industry. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them to genuine security-note standards, including real intaglio printing and embedded security threads, which is either reassuring or faintly absurd depending on your tolerance for commemorative paper.
The Van Gogh edition is one of hundreds in the series. Scarcity, if it matters here, is entirely artificial — edition sizes are controlled by the issuing venue, not any central authority.