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| Issuer | Austria |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presenting an exterior view of Benediktinerstift Admont monastery set against a panoramic backdrop, with an inset vignette of the renowned monastery library positioned above. The denomination and issuing inscriptions appear in the upper and lower margins, with the year 2024 incorporated into the design against a light guilloche underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | 950 JAHRE BENEDIKTINERSTIFT ADMONT 2024-9 0EURO SOUVENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. NEBM |
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Admont Abbey in Styria holds the world's largest monastic library still housed in its original baroque hall — a fact the abbey has traded on commercially for decades. This souvenir zero-euro note, issued for the 950th anniversary of the Benedictine foundation, is one of thousands of such pieces produced by Oberthur Fiduciaire under licensing arrangements with the European Central Bank that permit commemorative zero-denomination issues as collector items. They carry no legal tender status anywhere.
The security strip is largely symbolic here — present to satisfy the visual grammar of a "real" banknote, not to protect any monetary value.