See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

0 Euro - Santa Claus' Main Post Office Finland - Arctic Circle 66°33'07''N

Issuer Eurosouvenirs (Euro Souvenir)
Year 2018-2019
Type Log in to see details
Value 0 Euro (0 EUR)
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Size Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Printer Log in to see details
Designer(s) Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Log in to see details
Obverse lettering SANTA CLAUS' MAIN POST OFFICE FINLAND - ARTIC CIRCLE 66°33'07''N
EUROSOUVENIR
2018-1
0
0
Santa Claus' Main Post Office ®
° Arctic Circle ° Finland
EURO
SOUV
ENIR
R. FAILLE
C.E.O.
LEAH
Reverse description Log in to see details
Reverse lettering 0€
TORREDEBELEM
DASBRANENBUGERTOR
COLOSSEO
LATOUREIFFEL
SAGRADAFAMILIA
MANNEKEN-PIS
IMPRIME PAR OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE
0
EURO
SOUV
ENIR
Signature(s) Log in to see details
Protection type Log in to see details
Protection description Log in to see details
Variants Log in to see details
Comments

Eurosouvenirs notes occupy a peculiar niche — legal in design terms because they deliberately miss the size and security thresholds that would make them subject to EU counterfeiting law, yet close enough to genuine euro aesthetics to function as collectible novelties. This piece marks the exact latitude of the Arctic Circle as it cuts through Rovaniemi, Finland, where the Santa Claus Village postal operation has processed millions of letters annually since the late 1980s.

Oberthur Fiduciaire's involvement is the only technically serious element here — a security printer with genuine central bank contracts lending its name and paper stock to the souvenir trade. The signature of R. Faille appears across the series regardless of subject matter.

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE