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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3493709, member: 39"]Well, Oberthur is one of the euro printers - there are 14 licensed printers in the EU (though not all of them actually print the notes). And of course those souvenir notes can and do not have the same sizes, security features, etc. as the real euro bills. The look "reminds" of actual notes without imitating them. The current common reverse, by the way, is the third one. The first series (featuring monuments in France) had some "key" monuments from that country. The second series had London (Big Ben/Elizabeth Tower) too, but when the country promised to leave the EU, that was replaced by Lisbon (Torre de Belém). The first one in the city where I live was dedicated to the Tour de France which started in Düsseldorf (NW, DE) - and even though I was a "TourMaker" (local volunteer), I did not get myself any. Bummer; now they are kind of expensive ... Currently I have three: another one "from" Düsseldorf, one with Berlin Cathedral, and one that commemorates the 1889 Expo in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower under construction. That one even has an autograph by Richard Faille, from this year's World Money Fair where his company had a booth and some of those note dispensers, and he was there too. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Christian[/QUOTE]