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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 |
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| Size | 135 x 74 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | GENEX - GESCHENKE IN DIE DDR EUROSOVENIR 2021-59 0 Geschenke in die DDR Post EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. EXMZ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DASBRANENBUGERTOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LATOUREIFFEL SAGRADAFAMILIA MANNEKEN PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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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.