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0 Euro Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
| Issuer | Eurosouvenirs |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a portrait of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in his space helmet inscribed CCCP, set against a globe vignette of Earth. The large numeral '0' appears to the left on a lilac guilloche underprint, flanked by the EU flag and series code 2021-1. Cyrillic inscription Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин (1934–1968) and a facsimile signature of R. Faille, C.E.O., appear below the portrait. |
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| Reverse description | Standard Eurosouvenirs reverse with six architectural vignettes of European landmarks: Brandenburg Gate, Belém Tower, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Família, and Manneken Pis, arranged across the note. A vignette of the Mona Lisa occupies the right side, with the printer's imprint below. The denomination '0 EURO' and the EUROSOUV ENIR logotype appear in the lower centre. |
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Eurosouvenirs 0 Euro notes are legal collector items issued under license from the European Central Bank, printed to euro-specification security standards by authorized security printers — in this case Oberthur Fiduciaire in Rennes, who also produce genuine euro banknotes. The zero-denomination format was introduced in 2015 and has since become a substantial secondary market in its own right.
Gagarin's inclusion in a French-licensed souvenir series reflects the 60th anniversary of the Vostok 1 flight on 12 April 1961 — the note was issued to coincide with that commemoration. He remains one of very few Soviet figures to have achieved genuinely universal cultural recognition in the West.