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0 Euro - Wattenscheid
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2019 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows the winding tower of the Holland colliery in the background, with the old town hall of Wattenscheid in the foreground and the Lohrheidestadion to the right. The city seal of Wattenscheid appears at left, with serial code and series designation at upper centre. |
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| Reverse description | Standard EuroSouvenir reverse with vignettes of six European landmarks: the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Torre de Belém (Lisbon), the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels). Denomination 0€ appears at upper left with printer's imprint at lower centre. |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program, administered through a licensing arrangement with the European Central Bank, allows municipalities and tourist sites to issue legally printed but non-legal-tender notes as collectibles. Oberthur Fiduciaire handles the print run for much of the series, applying the same security features used on genuine euro notes — including the distinctive feel of intaglio printing — which is precisely why the ECB approval process exists at all.
Wattenscheid, a former independent city absorbed into Bochum in 1975 against considerable local protest, has maintained a stubborn civic identity ever since. That ongoing identity politics is what makes a souvenir note like this one commercially viable nearly five decades after the merger.