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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 343314, member: 39&quot;]Will you like the 2009 &quot;Ten Years Euro/EMU&quot; piece? Umm, well ...</p><p><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/thematic_articles/article11072_en.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/thematic_articles/article11072_en.htm" rel="nofollow">http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/thematic_articles/article11072_en.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Not that the other design suggestions were that great (see <a href="http://www.muenzblog.de/abstimmung-ueber-2-euro-gemeinschaftsmuenze-2009/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muenzblog.de/abstimmung-ueber-2-euro-gemeinschaftsmuenze-2009/" rel="nofollow">http://www.muenzblog.de/abstimmung-ueber-2-euro-gemeinschaftsmuenze-2009/</a>) but, like many collectors, I voted for #5, the design with the ten little guys. Now #2, the winner, is nice for a poster or so, but not for a coin with a mintage of possibly 90 million.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, it is OK of course if some newspaper, website etc. starts a &quot;let&#039;s all vote for #2&quot; initiative. But a &quot;viral&quot; campaign, in Greek forums, via e-mail etc., to vote for #2 because it was designed by a Greek? Some of those messages even mentioned the name of the designer - duh, the names and countries of the designers were not public, and not supposed to be revealed until the end of the vote.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ah well, the total number of votes was pretty low anyway, so such campaigns could be successful. I just wonder what the people who did not know or did note care about the contest will say when the coins will actually be issued. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As for the German mint marks, right, you would have to get five instead of one to be &quot;complete&quot; in that regard. Well, I don&#039;t do that either - one is fine for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most euro countries introduced the new reverse (with the updated map) in 2007, but others - e.g. Austria, Italy, Portugal - do it this year. Also note that the Belgian coins got modified obverse designs this year: Same (somewhat dull) design, but they added the country code and mint mark for example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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