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0 Euro - Suomen Presidentti - Martti Ahtisaari
| Issuer | Euro Souvenir |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse description | Centre vignette portrays a bust of Martti Ahtisaari against a guilloche underprint; to the left, a large '0' numeral and the Finnish presidential coat of arms medal; to the right, the Finnish flag and a fan of Finnish euro coins. The EU flag appears at upper left with series code 2021-10. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0€ DAS BRANDENBURGER TOR TORRE DE BELEM COLOSSEO LA TOUR EIFFEL SAGRADA FAMILIA MANNEKEN-PIS PRINTED BY OBERTHUR FIDUCIAIRE MADE IN FRANCE 0 EURO SOUV ENIR |
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Ahtisaari remains the only Finnish head of state to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in 2008 for his decades of conflict mediation work in Namibia, Kosovo, and Aceh. The souvenir zero-euro format, introduced commercially around 2015 and printed under Eurosystem-compliant security specifications by Oberthur Fiduciaire, has become a legitimate collector niche — legally unspendable by design, with no central bank authorization, but produced on genuine banknote paper with UV and microprint features intact.
Oberthur's Chantepie facility handles the bulk of this series for the European souvenir market.