I recently bought Euros from the original 13 EU countries from a guy in Greece. They were good coins at a good price so I thought I'd put the link here in case anyone else might be looking for Euros. I get no kickback, Honest. http://www.fleur-de-coin.com/ JonySky
Jony, Don't you mean 12 countries? There were three other "states" that issued euros:Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City,but they're so valuable that they aren't usually included in euro sets.The dealer you linked also says 12.
You mean there is a different Euro from each different countries. If so I want one from each this is awesomer!
JonySky,you'd better hang on to those Euro coins from San Marino.By the way,which values are they? Of course,they range from 1 Euro-Cent through to 2 Euros. Aidan.
If they are dated 2002, they will most likely be 20 ct, 50 ct, €1 and €2. The 2003 pieces, probably 20 and 50 ct; and 2004 would be 1, 2 and 5 ct. Most other denominations from SM were made for mint sets only. Christian
The site has 3 San Marino coins from 2004 for 4 euros, lowest deno. Isn't that pretty cheap?? I haven't collected euro coins till now so I'm new at this. Why is it so expensive? Vatican, I can understand since it'll probably be the last coins with John Paul II but Monaco and San Marino?
On one hand, these three countries do not issue many coins - and why should they? Practically the demand in Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican is negligible - they could, and do, use circulation coins from any euro country. (Andorra, for example, uses the euro cash too, and yet does not issue any euro coins at this stage.) But the former three issued their own franc or lire coins before the changeover, and made some extra money by selling them to collectors. MC, SM and VA are not actually members of the European Union or the currency union but have monetary agreements with the EU. These agreements allow them to issue a certain volume of coins. Now compare the mintages of the three and those of other countries ... http://www.eurocoins.liesemeijer.com/Mintage.html ... and you know why they are relatively expensive. Before the currency union, collectors in Greece or Ireland, for example, did not care that much about francs from Monaco or lire from San Marino. Nowadays all this is "the euro, our money", and more people than before want them. But of course you may well say that you collect only the euro coins from EU member states (which leaves the three "mini-countries" out) or that you collect only pieces that actually occur in circulation Christian
Collectors should keep an eye out for Finnish and Luxenburger euros. Each of these have population less than Hong Kong, for example, and hence very small mintage.
Actually coins from San Marino, Monaco, and the Vatican have always been popular collectibles because of their low mintages. They are a slightly tougher country for the one per country collectors, and since they changed the designs of each coin each year they were in high demand by the collectors building world type sets. Since most of the coins were only issued in mint sets, most of them went directly to collectors and don't come back out onto the market very quickly. This keps demand up. Then there are the silver crown sized pieces in the mint sets that have demand pressure from the crown collectors. I have been collecting those coins by type for years and I still have a fairly large number of coins from San Marino and Vatican. (Over 100 SM pieces since 1980 and about 50 vatican. Only need three from Monaco.) These coins are cheap, but they are just not available.
