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0 Euro - Suomen Presidentti - Juho Kusti Paasikivi
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PRESIDENTTI - J.K. PAASIKIVI 1946-1956 EUROSOUVENIR 2021-7 0 EURO SOUV ENIR Juho Kusti Paasikivi 1870-1956 R. FAILLE C.E.O. LEBM ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a composite architectural vignette presenting six iconic European landmarks arranged across the note: Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Lisbon's Torre de Belém, Paris's Tour Eiffel, Rome's Colosseum, Barcelona's Sagrada Família, and Brussels' Manneken-Pis fountain. A reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa occupies the right field, a standard design element of the EuroSouvenir series. The denomination 0€ is repeated in the lower register alongside the EUROSOUVENIR legend and the imprint PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE / MADE IN FRANCE. |
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EuroSouvenir notes occupy an odd corner of notaphily — legal in format, worthless by design, and officially tolerated under a 2012 ECB framework that permits zero-denomination collector pieces provided they cannot be mistaken for circulating euros. Oberthur's production of this Paasikivi issue follows the same security-paper and printing conventions used on genuine banknotes, which is precisely the point of the exercise.
Juho Kusti Paasikivi served as Finnish President from 1946 to 1956, navigating the country's delicate postwar relationship with the Soviet Union — the so-called Paasikivi Line of foreign policy pragmatism remained the cornerstone of Finnish diplomacy for decades after his death in 1956.