Myron

I am confused about the euro coins. Are they minted in their own individual countries or are they manufactured in some central location? Do any contain mint marks?

JBK

Usually, no, and yes.

Some coins (Greece, for example) were outsourced early on when the large quantities were being minted for the eruro’s introduction. They have littler mintmarks in one star to show if they were one of these. Some other countries also outsourced some of their minting, without any special designation on the coin (but I know some 2 euro coins have the wring edge inscriptions as a result of the contracted country using it’s own lettering instead of that for the customer country.)

They are otherwise minted by each country (except maybe for the smallest countries, which might outsource).

Some contain “privy marks” showing the mintmaster or other person, but I personally do not consider these mintmarks as such, as all the coins have the same mark.,

In the case of Germany, however, there are five mints, and each has it’s own mintmark. As far as I know, no other country has multiple mints, or at least they do not have individual mintmarks.

crystalk64

Good job JBK! And it is really good to see someone else interested in Euros! I am not alone!!! Well, actually I only collect a full set of coins from each issuing country the first year and then move on to silver euros! Have amassed quite a set thus far!

Arcturus

JBK is correct. When the Euro was introduced Greece did not have the capacity to mint all the coins they needed on their own, so coins for Greece were partially minted in other countries.

The coins for San Marino and the Vatican are minted in Italy. I'm not sure on Monaco, but I think they are minted in France.

Germany has five mints and the coins from Germany have mint marks as follows:
A = Berlin
D = Munich
F = Stuttgart
G = Karlsruhe
J = Hamburg

One other thing might be interesting: several member countries of the European Union which issue Euros have agreed to bring out coins jointly to certain themes (such as the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II). To mark these commemorative coins (usually in silver), they have agreed on a special star symbol which can be found on these coins.

Hope this helps!

Spider

silver euros u say?

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Steve E

The more I read, the more I get interested in these Euros. Is it hard to put together a full set? Are the Euros expensive to collect? How many Euros have been minted to date? All I need...another collection!!!

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Just Another Hoosier
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rggoodie

I am stil looking for three consecutively numbered GERMAN (letter X)
20 euro notes.
So when you euro coin collecors get more advanced, please remember me.
(Not as easy to find as you might think)

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Richard

JBK

What's the deal with 3? Is thatthe way they are collected? I saved some new ones when they were first issued, but doubtful that I have three of anythingm except maybe 5s.

chrisild

You may already know this, but keep in mind that the leading character and the trailing digit have "special purposes". The letter indicates the issuing national central bank, the last digit is the checksum. So what you actually want is three notes with the second digit from the right being consecutive :-)

Christian

rggoodie

chrisild
Yes, I knew that. Thank you, but I still have been unable to loacate them

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crystalk64

Steve E, I am sure this will help you decide! Many of the Euro nations will sell their BU silver euros at FACE VALUE and they can be picked up at their local post offices. Now the proofs very greatly from country to country with many being very expensive so I tend to concentrate on the BU coins (We call them unc!) I have received silver euros in one quarter denominations, one and one quarter, 5 euro, 10 euro, 12 euro, 20 euro, and if I remember correctly without looking, probably an 8 euro? Lots of history and culture and I AM NOT looking at the same bunch of dead Presidents all the time. Glad I started when I did as the Euro now costs me a little more due to conversion rates but still great when purchased at face value.

Spider

whats this silver euro i hear of?

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KLJ

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.

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crystalk64

And so to keep an honest balance amoungnst nations I have asked that they ship all the silvers to me and then I can distribute accordingly! But, I don't think the EU is listening to me at all!

Spider

im on ur side crystal

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