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| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Souvenir banknote |
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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 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ |
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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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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.