I'm thinking about starting a euro collection, and I need some help IDing the countries my coins are from, I currently only have: 2002 1 euro with the davinci drawing of a man, italy I assume? 2002 20 cent with a guy looking left? 2002 2 euro with a guy looking left with a leave headband on? 2002 50 cent with a building with columns 1999 2 cent with a mask 2002 1 cent with a building and for jutting out cornors I know where the rest of my euros are from, so I spared you Thanks for any help, and back to my main question, Does anyone have a collection? If so, how do you keep them, like are there folders for them. Thanks
You might want to keep an eye on Worldwide Coins magazine. Every so often they do a feature on Euros in the price guide and many-but not all-of the basic issues are pictured. I would look some up off your descriptions but all my issues are packed away in storage, sorry! I have a small collection, but they aren't seeming to show up too often here. I think that's mainly because they don't match up size-wise with US coins. I keep them in a (NON PVC) plastic box that is meant to store trading cards. I have my entire World coin collection in them, and several smaller ones for other countries. Overall I am not a fan of the Euro simply because the majority of the time, the country is not called out on them. Or at least the majority of the few I've gotten! I used that and Don's World Coin Gallery to identify the few I have. I will see if I can find the link to that, as I had it on my old computer, not sure I have imported it onto my new one yet. Hope that helps! PS, off the top of my mind I think the one with a mask might be French. But don't hold me to that one!
# 2002 1 euro with the davinci drawing of a man, italy I assume? -- Italy 1 euro 2002 # 2002 20 cent with a guy looking left? -- Belgium 20 cents 2002 (guy looking left - King of Belgium Albert II ) # 2002 2 euro with a guy looking left with a leave headband on? -- Italy, Spain, Belgium 2 euro 2002 # 2002 50 cent with a building with columns -- Germany 50 cents 2002 # 1999 2 cent with a mask -- France 2 cents 1999 # 2002 1 cent with a building and for jutting out cornors -- Italy 1 cent 2002 p.s. Use catalog and gallery euro coins - http://www.ucoin.net/catalog/?pid=1
I collect euros and keep them in Lighthouse albums (Just like the Danscos) you can see my euro collection by clicking on the link in my signiture
Guess you're not a fan of British coins either then. Actually most euro coins have a country name or country identifier. Several of the old ones do not, but most current ones do. A collector who is not familiar with our coinage can always go to the European Central Bank's website: This page http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/1cent/html/index.en.html lists all the 1 cent coins for example. You can click on a different denomination on the left, or select a country on the right to view all circulation coins from there. The European Commission has a gallery of the circulation coins, sorted by country, here: http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/the_euro/coins7456_en.htm Click on any piece to get an enlarged view. Christian
thanks for all the help, all the coins are ID'd now, and now I just need an album. Too bad I live in the US and only travel to central america, I need some euros!
I like euro coins. I lived in Italy for 2.5 years and I held onto a lot of the coins. Everytime I went to a different country I would hoard as many coins as I could afford at the time. The euro paper currency is also very cool IMO. I loved that they have a 1 & 2 dollar coins. I wish the US would ditch the paper $1.
Umm, we don't. But yes, I am glad the €1 and €2 denominations are metal and not paper. And who knows, maybe we can one day do away with the 1 and 2 cent coins. Those are a nuisance in my opinion. At least the edge of the 2 ct pieces is interesting ... Christian
i agree :thumb:: I agree the 1&2 cent's are a pain but there a few euro's with low mintage here in ireland the 2008 2-5-50 cent's there was only 50 thousand minted Hope they the power's that be will change the harp and put more castle's and landmark's on the coin's Dave
Thanks for that info, Christian! Most of my Euros are early-1999 and 2000 to be exact! British are nice and easy because they have the monarch on them
You can buy lighthouse albums in the USA and they look rather good as well :kewl: Now as for Ripley I am afraid there is little hope
Right, the Italian ones may be taken by the prime minister ... provided they are under 20. As for such "pre-printed" albums, they are fine if all you want is one set per euro country - that would be 16, plus the 3 non-members (Monaco, San Marino, Vatican). If you want both the old and the new euro coins, plus updates of country-specific sides, you would need more pages ... Christian
Not to mention the best part : €2 conmemoratives : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/€2_commemorative_coins which seems to me one of the most interesting parts of this. Good luck with this new collection!
Your "good luck" wishes come at a very appropriate time, now that this new Spanish series http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t61208/ is about to start. Some more pieces to collect, but that series could be a very interesting one ... Christian
i collect euro coins too . but it hard to find san mariano vatican city and monaco how you find it ? give me your opinian thank
These three countries are not members of the European Union, and issue euro coins based on the monetary agreements they have with the EU. Those agreements limit the issue volume that each of them has. Therefore coins from the Vatican are impossible to find in circulation; Monaco pieces are similarly difficult to get; San Marino is a little easier ... The numismatic offices of the Vatican and San Marino let you buy sets if you are on their customer lists. Monaco coins are, with very few exceptions, available from dealers only. The European Commission has made a proposal that would increase the annual volume of all three. If adopted by the Council, the issue volume of San Marino would be about the same; Vatican could issue about twice as much, and Monaco's new volume would be ten times more: Current limit (2009) -> Proposed new limit (in €) MC 221,000 -> 2,219,000 SM 2,183,000 -> 2,209,000 VA 1,074,000 -> 2,103,000 However, the Council has not made a decision yet. It may simply approve the suggestion, or it may modify it ... Christian
