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0 Euro - Genex - Geschenke in die DDR
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs (European Central Bank licensed souvenir program) |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a reproduction of the Genex mail-order catalogue alongside a postal parcel, evoking the West-to-East gift package service of the GDR era. Series code 2021-59 and the signature of R. Faille as C.E.O. appear within the design, framed by guilloche underprint and a row of five stars at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Six European architectural landmarks are arranged as vignettes across the note: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), Torre de Belém (Lisbon), Eiffel Tower (Paris), Colosseum (Rome), Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and Manneken Pis (Brussels). A portrait of the Mona Lisa occupies the right side, consistent with the standard Eurosouvenirs reverse layout. Printer and country of manufacture inscriptions appear at the base. |
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Genex — the Gesellschaft für Nichtkommerziellen Außenhandel — was a uniquely cynical institution: an East German state enterprise that allowed West Germans and West Berliners to purchase consumer goods, vehicles, even prefabricated houses, for delivery to relatives in the GDR. Hard currency came in; the regime kept it. The recipient got a washing machine or a Trabant, bypassing the chronic shortages of socialist retail entirely. It ran from 1956 until German reunification made it redundant.
The souvenir zero-euro program, licensed by the ECB and printed by Oberthur Fiduciaire, has issued hundreds of these topical notes since 2017. They are legal in format only — no face value, no tender status.