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0 Euro - Helene Schjerfbeck
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir (LECB) |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Printer | Oberthur Fiduciaire (François-Charles Oberthur Fiduciaire; FCO; Oberthur Technologies), France (1984-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | HELENE SCHJERFBECK 1862–1946 TOIPILAS EUROSOUVENIR 2022-2 0 The Convalescent 1888 0 EURO SOUVENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. LECB |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries vignettes of six iconic European landmarks arranged across the face: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Tower of Belém (Lisbon), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken Pis (Brussels), in the standard Euro Souvenir reverse format. A representation of the Mona Lisa appears to the right. The printer's imprint 'IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE' and the '0 EURO SOUVENIR' denomination are inscribed in the lower portion. |
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Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) spent much of her career in deliberate isolation, first in the Finnish countryside, later in Hyvinkää, producing a body of self-portraits that grew progressively more stripped down and psychologically intense as she aged. She was barely known outside Finland during her lifetime. The 0 Euro souvenir format, whatever one thinks of its commercial logic, has done more to circulate her name internationally than decades of museum catalogues managed.
Oberthur Fiduciaire printed this under the LECB licensing scheme that standardized the series across hundreds of European cultural issuers from roughly 2015 onward.