Aidan Work

Has any other member studied the mintmarks on the Euro coins? The Euro coins of Monaco are struck at the French Mint in Paris & have the usual Mintmaster's privy marks that flank the date,whereas,the Euro coins of San Marino & the Vatican City have the 'R' mintmark of the Italian Mint in Rome.The Luxembourgish Euro coins have the privy marks of the Mintmaster of the Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht.The Euro coins from Spain have the usual crowned 'M' mintmark of the Royal Spanish Mint in Madrid.The Greek Euro coins are very interesting as they
not only bear the distinctive mintmark of the Greek Mint in Athens,but some of the coins also contain letters hidden in one of the 12 stars on the obverse side.These probably indicate that the Greek Euro coins were struck at other mints.Have you taken a magnifying glass & had a look in the stars on the Greek Euro coins? The Luxembourgish Euro coins that I have in my collection not only bear the date '2002',but they
also have the bow & arrow with star transitional privy mark,which indicates that they were actually struck in late October,November or December 2000.The German,Italian,French & Dutch Euro coins have the usual privy marks & mintmarks.

The following countries do not have mintmarks on their Euro coins;
Ireland,Austria,Belgium,& Portugal.