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0 Euro - Hansestadt Buxtehude
| Issuer | Germany, Federal Republic of |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of a historic cog vessel under a square sail, emblazoned with symbols of the Hanseatic town of Buxtehude, including a hedgehog and a stylised wooden hare. To the left, the Evangelical Church of St. Peter is rendered in fine line engraving, while the overall layout follows the standard Euro souvenir note format with guilloche underprint in green and blue tones. The inscription HANSESTADT BUXTEHUDE and the commemorative legend SCHLAU WER SCHON DA IST appear in the upper and lower margins respectively. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The souvenir zero-euro note program, run under license from the European Central Bank since 2015, allows municipalities and tourist attractions to issue legal-tender-adjacent collector pieces at face value — typically sold for several euros apiece despite nominally being worth nothing. Buxtehude's entry in this series trades on the town's surprisingly durable cultural footprint: it is best known internationally as the fictional destination in the German idiom "wo der Hase Hase und der Igel Igel heißt" — more practically, as the punchline of the Brothers Grimm race story.
Oberthur Fiduciaire handles the bulk of the zero-euro souvenir program's print runs from its French facilities, applying genuine banknote-grade paper and a watermark to a product that will never pass through a cash register.