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Originally Posted by Spider whats this silver euro i hear of? |
Those are commemorative euros. Each country that uses the euro is allocated a certain amount of circulating euro coins to mint. These are the coins used in regular commerce. However, each nation will still have people and events that they want to commemorate with coins. These coins are legal money only in the issuing nation, even though they're denominated in euros. It's done that way so that one country, or a collection of countries, can't destroy the value of the euro by flooding the economy with "unauthorized" coins.
