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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 28355, member: 39&quot;]Could be one of the &quot;test coins&quot; used in Churriana, a suburb of Málaga. The crowned M is the mint mark of the Spanish Mint (FNMT-RCM). For about a week in late September/early October 1998 those coins were used in Churriana in a local &quot;euro test&quot;, three months before the euro was actually created. Here is some info (in Spanish) with pictures of the &quot;coins&quot; used in that test:</p><p><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ga/garnata/Churriana.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.angelfire.com/ga/garnata/Churriana.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.angelfire.com/ga/garnata/Churriana.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As for &quot;coin&quot; vs &quot;medal&quot; alignment, all euro coins (in fact, pretty much all European coins made nowadays) have what in the US is called &quot;medal&quot; alignment. So I suppose it made some sense to use that for the test pieces as well ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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