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0 Memo Euro - Ypern - Ypres - Ieper
| Issuer | Euroscope |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Menin Gate memorial arch at Ieper, with a Latin cross bearing a double crossbar in the foreground on a green guilloche underprint. The EU flag vignette appears at upper left alongside a large numeral zero, with twelve yellow stars arranged in an arc at lower left and scattered at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | A column of British soldiers marching across a poppy-strewn Flanders landscape, rendered in muted tones against a green guilloche underprint. Two lines from John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" are inscribed across the centre of the note. |
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The "Memo Euro" series was produced by Euroscope as a collector novelty mimicking the visual language of euro banknotes without carrying any legal tender status — a category that skirts EU regulations prohibiting the reproduction of genuine euro designs, which require alterations in size, single-sided printing, or the word "specimen" to be legally distributed. Euroscope's solution was the "0 Euro" denomination, a loophole that has spawned hundreds of regional tourist issues across Europe since roughly 2015.
The Ieper (Ypres) subject ties the piece to the Flemish town synonymous with some of the heaviest casualties of the First World War, including three major Allied offensives between 1914 and 1918.