I'm looking for some book about the euro or XX - XXIth century Spanish coins. I don't want a catalog with prizes, but some literature explaining the history and stories of the euro : new Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta, differente Conmeoratives, funny stories... etc. In general, I would like some coin reading, but all I can find are catalogs and US books about their coins : variants, prizes, errors, etc. I would like some book about european coins, but not just a catalog. I hope somebody can tell me. Thanks in advance.
Possibly not quite what you want, but nevertheless interesting: "How the euro became our money" (PDF format, about 100 pages) http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/other/euro_became_our_moneyen.pdf And then, earlier this year the European Commission (Ecofin DG) published a CD "Euro coins and banknotes". Many images (also of the ToR commems), and some background info: http://bookshop.europa.eu/uri?target=EUB:NOTICE:KC7606130:EN:HTML Also, the "Euro Münzkatalog" by Gerhard Schön has some background info about the Why&How on the first couple of pages. But that is in German - and it is primarily ... a catalog. Christian
Thank you very much, Christian!!! Your answer was very good and fast, as always. My German is not very good so I discard "Euro Münzkatalog" "Euro coins and banknotes" CD seem not to be available. I'll see whether it is possible to get it other way. And "How the euro became our money" looks very good. I'll read it for sure. Thanks again.
