For quite a while I've been trying to get what I consider a reasonable price on my 2002 Austrian 2-Euro double-clip error. It's been authenticated and graded by NGC. Talking to any dealer that I can find that might be interested in buy has led to this conclusion: "There isn't nearly the same amount of interest in non-US error coins as there is in US error coins. And that particularly includes non-US collectors." The consensus opinion of dealers seems to be that there is no market for them, at least at a price that the same type of error a US coin would get. I have no desire to keep it so I'll take whatever the market will offer. That appears to be in the $50 area.
Unfortunately, the interest in finding varieties dropped considerably after 1999. In the USA you can get a roll of coins and if not an error or a variety find something from the last couple of centuries. Keeps the interest up. Here in the Eurozone, every bank roll is Euro cents of whatever denomination, with the oldest being 1999. BORING as heck even with a different obverse design for each country, they all look the same after 5 minutes.
I want to see the slab. Grade? If I like it I will send you a PM I have 40 NGC attributed foreign mint errors.
NGC slab. Actually in spite of the 2002 date the coin was struck in 2001, The coin was included in a Euro Introduction Pack that was sold in 2001 so that the Austrian people could get introduced to the currency change that happened January 1, 2002. I bought several packs in late December at a bank and the pack I opened had this coin in it. The day before (December 31, 2001) the Austrians were still using the Shilling. We happened to be there for Christmas and New Years so we got caught in the change-over.
