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0 Euro - Wuppertal-Vohwinkel
| Issuer | Germany, Federal Republic of |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (Francois-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows the Wuppertal monorail suspension railway (Schwebebahn) passing through the Vohwinkel district, set against a decorative house facade rendered in fine guilloche underprint. The coat of arms of the Vohwinkel Citizens' Association appears alongside the issuer's text inscription. The denomination '0 Euro' is printed in the upper left corner against a light multicolour background. |
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| Protection type | Security thread, Colour-shifting ink |
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Wuppertal-Vohwinkel is a district associated with the western terminus of the Schwebebahn, the suspended monorail that has operated above the Wupper river since 1901. These zero-euro souvenir notes were introduced to the European market around 2015 by the Oberthur-connected distributor EuroBilletShop and have since proliferated into hundreds of regional and tourist-themed editions. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints them on genuine banknote stock with real security features — thread and colour-shifting ink — which is precisely the point: they feel authentic because the substrate and production methods are identical to circulating currency.
They carry no legal tender status anywhere, but German customs law has occasionally flagged bulk imports as counterfeit-adjacent, given the production fidelity.