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0 Euro - Šťastné a veselé
| Issuer | Slovakia |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Currency | Euro (2009-date) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette illustrates a festive Christmas scene set in a snow-covered village, with a richly decorated Christmas tree surrounded by wrapped gifts in the foreground. The composition is rendered in warm, illustrative style evoking a traditional winter holiday atmosphere. Inscriptions identifying the souvenir issue, the designer credit, and the series reference appear within the design. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse follows the standard 0-Euro souvenir banknote format, with vignettes of six iconic European landmarks arranged across the note: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Torre de Belém (Lisbon), the Colosseum (Rome), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken-Pis statue (Brussels). The Mona Lisa appears at the right side of the design, and the face value "0 EURO" is displayed alongside the printer attribution and country of manufacture. |
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Slovakia's zero-euro souvenir notes occupy a peculiar commercial niche — legal tender in denomination only, issued under ECB tolerance of the souvenir note format that emerged in France around 2015 and spread across the eurozone as a numismatic curiosity with no redemption obligation. This particular example is a seasonal Christmas release, "Šťastné a veselé" translating roughly as "Happy and Merry." Oberthur Fiduciaire produced it on genuine banknote paper with a watermark, which gives these pieces their tactile credibility despite the denomination making them economically inert from the moment of printing.