Euro Note Souvenir: Ireland’s First ‘0 Euro Banknote’ Officially Released
14 August 2018 - 10:05AM
Business Wire
Euro Note Souvenir, a Galway based company, has launched the
first ‘0 Euro’ banknote for Ireland this month. The banknote, also
referred to as Euro Souvenir, shows the picture of a Celtic harp
and a map of Ireland and its counties, and marks the beginning of
the introduction of the Euro Souvenir concept in Ireland as an
Irish souvenir or Irish gift.
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The Euro Souvenir note looks and feels like a real Euro
banknote, and with the Celtic harp and the map of Ireland, one
could think of it as an official Irish banknote. The note carries
even security features such as watermark, hologram, microprint,
security thread and the symbols that appear only under UV
light.
The “Euro Souvenir” is a new souvenir or merchandise concept for
the tourism sector and visitor attractions. The note can be
personalized with a picture of an attraction, event or building,
like built heritage, a museum or a zoo, and marketed to visitors
and tourists via an ATM-like machine or counter displays.
“All that is needed for the production of the personalized
banknote is a photo, an image or drawing of what should appear on
it,” says Sara Medwed, Head of customer Service at Euro Note
Souvenir.
The ‘0 Euro Souvenir’ concept already exists in eight EU
countries. It started in France, where it was invented by French
entrepreneur and innovator Richard Faille in 2015, who was
successfully dealing with souvenir coins before he invented the 0
Euro banknote. The concept was then carried to Germany, Austria,
France, Belgium, Italy Switzerland, Spain and Portugal, where it
was very successfully introduced by individual businesses.
Ireland will be one of the next countries to welcome the ‘0 Euro
Souvenir’ as an Irish gift, and personalized banknotes with Irish
locations can be produced from January 2019 to be ready for the
start of the new tourist season. Not only do tourists like this new
type of souvenir, but also people who collect the 0 Euro notes as a
hobby, like coins or stamps.
“There are in fact large communities of collectors in the other
countries who collectively order their required amounts,” says
Peter Schneider, the founder of Euro Note Souvenir. “Of the five
thousand notes produced in the first batch, almost half of them
were sold to collectors even before they were available in the
market,” adds Schneider.
The company offers the souvenir banknote with the Celtic harp
via their web shop for 4.99 EUR a piece, but also seeks business
partners in Ireland, such as souvenir and gift shops interested in
selling the souvenir locally.
The ‘0 Euro Souvenir’ banknotes are approved by the European
Central Bank (ECB) and printed by Oberthur Fiduciary in
Switzerland, which is an official Euro banknote printing partner of
the ECB. It takes about 8 weeks to produce a banknote with a new
picture, while reorders of an existing banknote take 4 weeks.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.euronotesouvenir.ie
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