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0 Memo Euro - Gent Sint Baafs Kathedraal
| Issuer | Memo Euroscope |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the western façade of Sint-Baafs Cathedral in Ghent, rendered in green intaglio-style engraving against a pale yellow-green guilloche underprint. The large numeral '0' appears at left, with the EU flag in the upper-left corner. A coat of arms is displayed at lower right, with the MEMO EURO SCOPE logotype below centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | EAAA230/1 MEMO EURO SCOPE euroscope |
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Memo Euro notes are a private commemorative series produced by the Belgian company Euroscope, designed to mimic the format of genuine euro banknotes without constituting legal tender or falling afoul of EU reproduction rules — the zero denomination is the legal mechanism that keeps them compliant. Sint-Baafs Cathedral in Ghent is the obvious subject choice: it houses the Ghent Altarpiece, the Van Eyck polyptych that was stolen, dismembered, hidden, and sold across five centuries before being partly reassembled after World War II.
Printing by Enschedé in Haarlem lends the piece a security-paper pedigree that most novelty items of this type never approach.