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0 Euro - Nicholas I
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Currency | Euro (2002-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | NIKOLAI I SUOMEN SUURIRUHTINAS 1825-1855 EUROSOUVENIR 2020-2 0 Tsar of Russia 1825-1855 Grand Duke of Finland 1825-1855 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. LEBH |
| Reverse description | Six iconic European architectural monuments are arranged in vignette panels: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Torre de Belém (Lisbon), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken Pis (Brussels). A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa appears at right, with the zero-euro denomination in the lower field. |
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The EuroSouvenir program, administered under license from the European Central Bank, permits approved printers to produce face-value-zero collector notes that are technically legal novelty items — not legal tender, but not counterfeits either. Oberthur Fiduciaire handles a substantial portion of these runs, printing them to the same security specifications as genuine euro banknotes, including the correct substrate and UV-reactive inks.
Nicholas I of Russia makes for an odd souvenir subject for a euro-denominated novelty — he ruled from 1825 to 1855 and was famously hostile to Western liberalism, suppressing the Decembrist revolt within weeks of taking the throne.