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0 Euro - Suomen Presidentti - Risto Ryti
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PRESIDENTTI - R. RYTI 1940-1944 EUROSOUVENIR 2021-5 0 EURO SOUV ENIR Risto Ryti 1889-1956 R. FAILLE C.E.O. LEBM ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
| Reverse description | The reverse reproduces the standard EuroSouvenir back design, presenting six iconic European architectural monuments arranged across the note: Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, the Tower of Belém, the Eiffel Tower, Rome's Colosseum, Barcelona's Sagrada Família, and Brussels' Manneken-Pis. A vignette of the Mona Lisa is placed to the right of the architectural compositions. Printer and origin inscriptions appear in the lower section, with the '0 EURO' denomination repeated in the lower right. |
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EuroSouvenir notes are legal collector's items under a scheme authorized by the European Central Bank, permitting commemorative zero-denomination pieces to circulate freely as novelties without constituting currency. Oberthur Fiduciaire prints the series to genuine banknote specification — same security paper, same intaglio process used on circulating euro issues.
Risto Ryti served as Finland's president from 1940 to 1944, a period defined entirely by war. He signed the 1944 separate peace agreement with the Soviet Union, then was prosecuted under retroactive Finnish law for his role in the 1944 alliance with Germany — a political trial widely criticized as judicial improvisation under Allied pressure. He was pardoned in 1949.