5 Euros Independence, Tolerance, Liberty

San Marino issued this piece in 2003 as part of its ongoing commemorative program, which the republic has used aggressively since the early euro-era transition to maintain a numismatic revenue stream — the country itself adopted the euro in 2002 under a monetary agreement with Italy, never having been an EU member. Collector-targeted issues like this one were legal tender but saw essentially zero circulation, making worn examples a genuine oddity.