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0 Euro - Elisabeth of Austria Sissi
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi) at centre-left, with the family castle of Possenhofen in Bavaria forming the background vignette; coat of arms positioned above. Inscriptions record the 123rd death anniversary with birth and death dates. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELISABETH OF AUSTRIA Sissi EUROSOUVENIR 2021-3 0 EURO SOUV ENIR Schloss Possenhofen Castel Possenhofen 123th Death Anniversary 24th December 1837 - 10 September 1998 R. FAILLE C.E.O. NEBQ * * * * * |
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The 0 Euro souvenir note program, administered under license from the European Central Bank, has produced hundreds of tourist-market issues since its commercial launch around 2015. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints the entire series to genuine banknote specification — same security paper, same intaglio printing — which is precisely the point: collectors are buying a legally worthless note that is physically indistinguishable in production quality from circulating currency.
Elisabeth of Austria, the Bavarian-born Empress who became an enduring cult figure across Central Europe, is a predictable but commercially reliable subject. Her assassination in Geneva in 1898 by the anarchist Luigi Lucheni remains one of the more historically bizarre events of the fin-de-siècle — stabbed with a sharpened needle file, she initially didn't realize she had been fatally wounded.