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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 204535, member: 39&quot;]Ah yes, 17 types makes some sense. I don&#039;t collect Germany by mint mark, so for me the German pieces count as one. Also because the &quot;five designs&quot; are identical.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Side note: Strictly speaking there are four mints in Germany. But one of them has two minting facilities, Karlsruhe/G and Stuttgart/F.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Treaty of Rome coins are very similar - that was the idea behind this common issue - but of course there are country/language related differences. Austria and Germany, for example, are both German speaking countries, but the Austrian coin says &quot;Vertrag von Rom&quot; (literally &quot;Treaty of Rome&quot;) while the German one says &quot;Römische Verträge&quot; (lit. &quot;Roman Treaties&quot;). Both are OK - there was actually more than one treaty, but the EC Treaty was the more relevant one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note that the text in the upper part of the Belgian coin is in Latin, to avoid having three different language versions. The piece from Luxembourg is curious too, due to the latent image featuring the grand duke. (LU can apparently not issue a single coin without his effigy.) The mintages are:</p><p><br /></p><p>Austria: 9,000,000</p><p>Belgium: 6,000,000</p><p>Germany/A: 1,165,000</p><p>Germany/D: 14,665,000</p><p>Germany/F: 8,165,000</p><p>Germany/G: 5,165,000</p><p>Germany/J: 1,665,000</p><p>Greece: 4,000,000</p><p>Finland: 1,400,000</p><p>France: 9,600,000</p><p>Ireland: 4,800,000</p><p>Italy: 5,000,000</p><p>Luxembourg: 2,047,500</p><p>Netherlands: 6,025,000</p><p>Portugal: 1,000,000</p><p>Slovenia: 400,000</p><p>Spain: 9,600,000</p><p><br /></p><p>The mintage figures are still subject to change, and include the pieces for BU and proof sets. (Hence the sometimes &quot;odd&quot; numbers.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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