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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2647804, member: 39&quot;]Will definitely get that one. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Partly because I visited the church (and also the cathedral in downtown Oviedo, plus San Miguel de Lillo) a while ago, partly because I collect those €2 commems anyway ...</p><p><br /></p><p>This year the World Money Fair started on Fri 3 Feb, and as usual that was also the day of first issue for the German piece (from the &quot;German States&quot; series). The 2017 coin honors Rhineland-Palatinate, and shows the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Nigra" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_Nigra" rel="nofollow">Porta Nigra</a> in Trier.</p><p><br /></p><p>More about the coin is here (<a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3AC2017/023/04" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3AC2017/023/04" rel="nofollow">Official Journal</a>); below is a photo that shows the five issues (one from each mint). Usually I get just one, regardless of the mint, but at the WMF one distributor gave loose sets away at face. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;Ch&quot; initials refer to the designer František Chochola, the large &quot;D&quot; at the bottom is short for Germany. No idea why they don&#039;t use &quot;DE&quot;; single characters are also used for the mint marks (on the left).</p><p><br /></p><p>For this German States series &quot;characteristic&quot; buildings are picked which in many cases (like this one) are part of Unesco&#039;s World Heritage. But Germany has a separate series (€100 gold coins) that deals with such sites. As far as I know, the Spanish €2 series features the World Heritage sites in chronological order ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]585201[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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