Frequently asked questions

A 0€ souvenir banknote (or 'Euro Souvenir') is a commemorative note bearing the image of a monument, museum, park or cultural event. Printed by Oberthur, a banknote printer, with security features (watermark, hologram), it carries the face value '0 Euro' and is not legal tender.

No. 0€ banknotes are souvenirs published by a private company, Euro Banknote Memory, or by its licensees, and printed by Oberthur, a banknote printer, with security features. They are not legal tender: their value is purely numismatic and sentimental.

No. 0€ Souvenirs is an independent community website run by collectors. It is not affiliated with, associated with or endorsed by Euro Banknote Memory, publisher of the banknotes, Oberthur, their printer, or their licensees. The website sells no banknotes: to buy some, visit the points of sale listed on the map.

0€ banknotes are sold in the shops of historical monuments, museums, zoos, theme parks and tourist offices across Europe. The 0eurosouvenirs.com catalogue lists over 5,000 banknotes and their points of sale.

The banknotes are published by Euro Banknote Memory (EBM) and printed by Oberthur Cash Protection (formerly Oberthur Fiduciaire), one of Europe's main banknote printers, using processes close to those of genuine euro banknotes. The format is 133 × 72 mm.

The year corresponds to the edition year of the banknote, sometimes followed by an edition number (e.g. '2023-1', '2024-2'). The same site may issue several different editions over the years: each edition is a distinct banknote in collectors' eyes.

The print run indicates the total number of copies printed for a given edition. A low print run - a few thousand copies - makes the banknote rarer and more sought-after on the secondary market.

Everything happens directly on the site: you can suggest a new point of sale from the Shops page, report a missing banknote or an error from the banknote's page, or vote to confirm the availability of a banknote in a shop. A free account is enough to contribute.

0 euro souvenir banknotes are sold mostly at tourist sites: museum shops, souvenir shops, tourist offices, monument ticket desks and a few vending machines. The site's "Where to buy" page lists sales points by country and city, and the interactive map shows them on a plan.

A banknote is usually sold where it is depicted: at the landmark's shop or ticket desk, or at the nearby tourist office. Each landmark has its own page on 0eurosouvenirs.com listing all its vintages and the known sales points, with indicative prices reported by the community.

Each city with enough banknotes or sales points has its own page on 0eurosouvenirs.com, reachable from its country page: it lists the city's banknotes, their vintages and where to buy them locally. For a city without a page, the catalogue can be filtered by city.

Yes: some editions are sold online only, and several online shops sell them. The ones reported by the community and validated by moderators are listed on the "Online shops" page. 0eurosouvenirs.com does not sell any banknote: it points to sellers.

The interactive map of sales points is on the home page and on the Shops page: filter by country and city, and open a sales point's page (address, venue type, available banknotes). Any member can suggest a missing sales point.

At the point of sale, a banknote usually costs between €2 and €3 depending on the tourist site, and can exceed €10 in some countries. Its value then changes with rarity, print run, vintage and serial number. The current price, computed from prices reported by the community, is shown on the "Where to buy" page; prices per sales point are indicative.

No. A 0 euro banknote is not legal tender and not a bank note: it is sold at the tourist sites it depicts, and in some online shops.

The code (4 letters, sometimes 5 characters) identifies the banknote's design, so the place depicted. The same code usually comes back across several vintages. It is read on the front, with the serial number and the vintage, and is the key to find the banknote's page in the catalogue.

The serial number is printed on the front, bottom right. It is unique for a given vintage. Banknotes are delivered to sales points in bundles of 100 with continuous numbering, which is why collectors value low serial numbers.

A genuine 0 euro banknote is printed by a security printer and carries security features close to those of bank notes: a watermark visible against the light, an iridescent hologram, a security thread, micro-text and inks visible under UV. Also compare the code, vintage and design with the catalogue page; if in doubt, report it from the page.

Rarity depends on print run, vintage and serial number. The most sought-after are first editions (2015), low print runs, low serial numbers, banknotes quickly withdrawn from sale and printing errors (for example the Sarlat banknote with six geese instead of three). The site's rankings and statistics show the most collected banknotes.

Yes. The best-known printing error is the Sarlat-la-Canéda banknote (six geese instead of three). The site also flags, on the relevant banknote page, special series declared by administrators (gold hologram, anniversary...).

Several thousand designs have been issued in Europe and beyond since 2015. The exact number of catalogued banknotes, by country and vintage, is shown live on the site's Statistics page.

New banknotes come out regularly. Each vintage has its own page on 0eurosouvenirs.com: the current year's page lists the latest catalogued editions. New series are also announced in the site's news.

You can collect by region, country, vintage or code, or hunt for low serial numbers, limited editions and printing errors. On 0eurosouvenirs.com, a free account lets you organise your collection, keep a wishlist and scan a banknote with the camera to read its code and serial number.

A 0 euro banknote is not legal tender and cannot be used to pay: it is a collectible sold as a souvenir. Its value is the collectors' market value: the original sale price, then, for some rare banknotes, indicatively several hundred euros.

In the site forum, post a trade or a sale from the copies in your collection (one banknote or a bundle), or a wanted notice. Trading opens to accounts with a confirmed email registered for 7 days, selling after a first completed trade. Collector fairs and shows are listed in the site’s events calendar.

Yes. Collector fairs, shows and other events are listed in the site's events calendar, with their date and place. New series are announced in the news.

Souvenir banknotes are sold at the places they depict: museum shops, monuments, tourist offices, zoos and parks, sometimes in a vending machine, and online for some editions. Use the souvenir banknote map and the list of sales points on this site to find the one near you.

The 0€ Souvenirs home page is an interactive map of 0 euro souvenir banknote sales points, with their banknotes, indicative price and opening hours when known. A point that no longer sells banknotes stays visible in grey.

A tourist banknote is another name for the 0 euro souvenir banknote. Open the map, filter by country or city, then click a sales point to see the banknotes available. You can also browse the catalogue, banknote by banknote.

A Euro Souvenir banknote is a collectible banknote with a face value of zero, issued since 2015 by Euro Banknote Memory (EBM) and printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire. In German it is called "0 Euro Schein", "Null-Euro-Schein" or "Euro Souvenirschein".

Euro Banknote Memory is the company that publishes the 0 euro souvenir banknote collection, created by Richard Faille. It grants tourist sites the right to offer their own banknote. 0€ Souvenirs is an independent site, not affiliated with EBM.

It is neither: it is a souvenir and collectible item with no legal tender status. Its original price is a few euros; only some rare banknotes, with a small print run or a printing error, resell for more, and for indicative purposes only.