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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3330 on: June 10, 2022, 09:23:21 AM »
The mystery item arrived this morning!

I've been teasing the Carcassonne Central Discord folks that I had found and purchased a Carcassonne-related item that I had never seen anyone else talk about. They tried to guess what it was, but were unsuccessful. I gave a few hints but not enough to make it too easy: it was a mass-produced item (not something that I had made in China), it came from Europe, and it was related to the city of Carcassonne rather than the game of Carcassonne.

One final tease before the reveal... it came in these envelopes. The outer envelope is marked "Please do not fold" and the postmark is from France. Can you guess what it is before scrolling down all the way?



Did you guess correctly?



This is a zero-Euro souvenir banknote issued by the Central European Bank in 2017. From what I've been told by YouTubers, zero-Euro banknotes are available for purchase from vending machines in various European cities for 3 euros. Each city has different banknotes, so you typically need to travel around Europe to collect them. (Some European countries which do not use euros as currency still have had these souvenir banknotes issued for some of their local landmarks, including the United Kingdom.) Willem didn't see any vending machines for these on his recent trip to Carcassonne, so they are probably only available on the secondary market now. I got mine from an eBay seller for a reasonable 10 euros.

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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3331 on: June 10, 2022, 09:57:45 AM »
With that kind of money, your mayor can become king in a city with no coats of arms!!! Like strength, like fortune!

Gorgeous bank note!!! :o :o
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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3332 on: June 10, 2022, 11:04:09 AM »
Interesting. Does it have any purpose or is it really just a souvenir?

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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3333 on: June 10, 2022, 12:04:49 PM »
It's just a souvenir. Although it is officially-issued currency, the face value of zero euros renders it worthless as currency.

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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3334 on: June 10, 2022, 12:13:21 PM »
So it CAN be used then?

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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3335 on: June 10, 2022, 12:22:44 PM »
They can be used at the Carcassonne Museum to buy a special exclusive visitors item!  ;)
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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3336 on: June 11, 2022, 03:34:58 AM »
It's just a souvenir. Although it is officially-issued currency, the face value of zero euros renders it worthless as currency.
It is invention on french business man. You can but these 0 euro notes everywhere in France. Also is common here in Slovakia. It very problematic to collect them because you don't know in which town and which sight is on them.
I wanted to buy one in Carcassonne for sentimental reasons, these notes sell machine was broken. if I remember there was two different notes for Carcassonne and one for Castle. Don't remember because I was very confused about that machine :(

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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3337 on: June 13, 2022, 12:21:41 PM »
One of my other hobbies is currency collecting, so the intersection between that and Carcassonne could not be resisted. This is the beginning of another collection.


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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3338 on: June 13, 2022, 03:57:14 PM »
Ha ha ha!

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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3339 on: June 14, 2022, 12:17:28 PM »
I think two is the minimum for a collection?




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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3340 on: June 14, 2022, 11:21:52 PM »
Oh oh! This looks promising!  ;D

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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3341 on: June 15, 2022, 01:56:23 AM »
Love those coins! Please expect a flurry of PMs from me asking where I can get similar from; I need a lucky coin!

EDIT: Wow - eBay has loads of them. And there was me worrying about what I was going to do with all this money I don't have... ::)
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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3342 on: June 15, 2022, 07:04:22 AM »
Ha ha ha!

Are the guys on Ebay switcing on their speculation mode?

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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3343 on: June 15, 2022, 09:19:37 AM »
The thing in the foreground is a magnet.




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Re: I love the postman...
« Reply #3344 on: June 15, 2022, 12:06:48 PM »
More little treasures!!!  :(y) :(y)


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