Questions About Euros

Thiesauger,the crowned 'A II' monogram on the Belgian Euro coins is not a mintmark.It is the monogram for His Majesty,King Albert II.

Aidan.

 

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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

 

Neat list! Let me just add a few remarks ...

Actually the Mint does have a mint mark - a little angel's head. But it puts that mark on the commemorative and collectors coins only.

As for the German mintage "proportions", that is indeed the default. In some cases, however, the production shares may be different, like 5 x 20% ...

Finland does not use a mint mark on its own coins. But the ones made in Vantaa/FI for Luxembourg do have Rahapaja's mark.

The coins issued by Luxembourg are made at various locations. The collectors coins have been produced by mints in Stuttgart/DE, Warsaw/PL and Vantaa/FI; the circulation coins have been made in Vantaa (2005) and Utrecht (before).

The Austrian coin, and the one from Belgium, have already been issued. Guess the Spanish piece will come very soon. A list of those €2 commemorative coins (with ho-hum pictures though) is here:
http://www.ecb.int/bc/coins/comm/html/index.en.html

Christian

 

3 Euros

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

 

As far as I can tell, all euro countries (except the three small non-EU ones) do mint those coins every year. In some cases, however, they make them for those mint sets only. Belgium 1 cent 2000, for example, can only be found in such sets.) Ireland does not seem to do this, but of course you won't find too many "non-2002" coins from IE in circulation.

Same thing with Italy, and also Germany and some others that decided to date their euro coins only 2002 and later. With regard to Finnish or French coins, dated 1999 and later, that is a little different ...

Christian

 

Sure, but public opinion in the UK regarding the currency union does not have much to do with the production of euro coins and notes for third countries. The UK is not part of Euroland, but as long as it is a member state of the European Union, British companies may well produce euro cash. Paper money too - for example, the Portuguese central bank is one of those commissioning the production of €20 notes, and they have some notes made by De La Rue (printer code H) which is based in the UK.

Christian

 

I don't think that the Portuguese central bank can issue notes anymore. It's only done by the European central bank for the whole of Euroland.

 

Yes and no The European Central Bank controls the production of euro notes, but it does not directly order notes from printing facilities. The way this "decentralized pooling system" works (from what I know about it) is that the ECB says how many notes of this or that denomination are needed. Then the national bank(s) commissioning the production of that particular denomination (see http://www.ecb.int/bc/faqbc/figures/html/index.en.html#banknotes) will pick a printer. Could be some in-house printing works, could be some manufacturer in a different EU country ...

Christian

 

Where does one find the printer codes on the Euro notes.I'll have a look at my Irish 5 Euro & 10 Euro notes in my collection again to
try & find them.

Aidan.

 

I have a Lux 20 cent coin with weird stars. Most coins have stars which are uniform , but this one has stars which “stretch” as they go around the design (the middle ones at 9:00 and 3:00 for example are normal, but the others stretch as they go around the deign.

What’s the deal on these????

 

The position depends on the denomination. This for example http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/banknotes/euro/EuroPNew(S)-5Euro-2002_f.jpg is a €5 note made by the Banca d'Italia. The "J" printer code is above the O of the word EURO. On the €10 notes the printer code is in the "eight o'clock" star. The codes have a "XnnnXn" structure, where X is a letter and n is a digit.

Christian

 

Strange. But I don't know much about errors and varities, so I can only guess here: Maybe a weak strike? Stars that are hardly visible do occur from time to time, even on brand new coins. Here http://www.sammler.com/mz/euro_abarten_irland.htm#1_Cent is an example with six instead of twelve stars. No "stretched" ones though.

By the way, are you sure about the country and denomination? The LU 20 ct coins have the stars in a semi-circle (to the right on the country specific sides) only ...

Christian

 

You are right - it is Belgium.

But, it is no error for sure - it is a clear strike and therefore desogend that way. I saw a similar German one on eBay. Not sure of this was an early design. I will try to post a scan someday so people can see it.

 

Information on Euro coins

http://www.catalogoeuro.net/index.php

(English - so there shuld be no problems for the majority of this forum)

 

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sorry about that my repley was there was only 50000 irish 50 cents for 2008

 

Greetings!

Referring to your post in which you said (of coins from the Paris Mint):

"Some of the commemorative coins also have a mark which identifies these as coins minted during the first year of the Euro. This mark consists of the Greek letter alpha and the year 2002."

I am trying to locate information about a series of 7 coins made by the Paris Mint in 2002. This series was for 7 countries that were former French colonies (Central Africa, Rwanda, West Africa, Djibouti, Guinea, Commores, and Polynesia/New Caledonia). The coins were of different denomination in francs and reportedly were struck by mistake with the awl "2002 first year of the Euro".

If anyone can provide information leading to the location or purchase of these coins, I would be eternally grateful.

Best regards,
"Lazarus"

 

I will do some checking

And see what i can find!!

 

Don't think that alpha mark was added "accidentally". Here is such a piece from Djibouti for example: http://www.priceminister.com/offer/...-Argent-Dromadaires-Sagaies-Numismatique.html

I do not collect such coins so I cannot tell what would be a realistic price. I briefly checked some of them in the Schön catalog, and that lists a price of €80 per issue.

(Edit) Just looked them up; these are the face values:

Central Africa (CFA) 1000 francs
Comores 1000 francs
Djibouti 250 francs
French Polynesia 200 francs
Guinea 2000 francs
Rwanda 500 francs
West Africa (CFA) 1000 francs

Each of these is a silver piece with a diameter of 37 mm (which corresponds to the French €1.50 collector coins). Each has a mintage of 500; they were made in France (Monnaie de Paris). The common theme, so to say, was franc coins in the world after the euro cash launch in France. Note that the logo on the French coins is what you mentioned (alpha sign and 2002 combined) while the pieces listed here all have a logo that combines the Alpha/2002 and the Stars of Europe.

Christian