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0 Euro - Väinö Linna - Tuntematon Sotilas
| Issuer | EuroSouvenir |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 0 Euro (0 EUR) |
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| Obverse lettering | VÄINÖ LINNA - TUNTEMATON SOTILAS EUROSOUVENIR 2020-1 0 DER UNBEKANNTE SOLDAT LE SOLDAT INCONNU EL SOLDADO DESCONOCIDO THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER НЕИЗВЕСТНЫЙ СОЛДАТ Väinö Linna 1920-1992 0 EURO SOUV ENIR R. FAILLE C.E.O. LEBJ |
| Reverse description | Six iconic European architectural monuments arranged across the face: the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), the Tower of Belém (Lisbon), the Eiffel Tower (Paris), the Colosseum (Rome), the Sagrada Família (Barcelona), and the Manneken Pis (Brussels). A reproduction of the Mona Lisa vignette appears at right, with the '0 €' denomination at upper left. |
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EuroSouvenir notes are collector-issued novelties with no legal tender status anywhere, produced under a licensing arrangement that permits use of the euro format for commemorative purposes. Oberthur Fiduciaire, one of Europe's serious security printers with genuine central bank contracts, handles the production — an unusual pairing of industrial credibility with a frankly touristic product.
Väinö Linna's 1954 novel *Tuntematon Sotilas* (The Unknown Soldier) remains the most widely read Finnish-language novel ever published, a deliberately unglamorous account of Finnish soldiers on the Eastern Front during the Continuation War. Its cultural weight in Finland is difficult to overstate — it has been adapted for film three times, most recently in 2017.