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0 Euro - Willy Brandt
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait vignette of Willy Brandt occupying the right two-thirds of the note, rendered in purple-violet tones against a fine guilloche underprint. The EU flag and a large numeral '0' appear at left, with scattered euro stars across the field. A holographic foil element is affixed at upper right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Hologram |
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The 0 Euro souvenir program was launched in France in 2015 by Richard Faille, who correctly identified that European collectors would buy a technically worthless note simply because it was legal-format and Oberthur-printed. By 2018 the series had expanded to hundreds of subjects, Willy Brandt among them — his inclusion almost certainly timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his chancellorship.
Oberthur's involvement matters here. These are not novelty press items; they carry genuine banknote-grade security features, printed on the same equipment used for circulating currency. That's precisely what drives the secondary market.