And to keep you busy, the Dutch mint has just issued a new piece. http://www.herdenkingsmunt.nl/domains/herdenkingsmunt/content/waterland_hdm_home_big_banner.jpg Christian
I found a 2c Euro coin while roll searching US cents. I Googled "Euro 2c designs" and found out it came from France. It has a "Medallion" turn instead of a "Coin" turn. is that the normal for those coins ?
This new one (Waterland Vijfe) is about the constant struggle with the water of the North Sea. The obverse shows Queen Beatrix "normally" (above) and mirrored by the water. The other side shows in an interesting way that, without all the dams, locks, etc. roughly half of the country would be covered by seawater ... Christian
Latest euro additions 3 more for the EMU collection Finland/Greece/Malta I wont bother showing those as it is a generic design and rather dull LOL on to the next then 2010 Finland 2 euros 150th Anniversery of the issuing of the 1st Finnish Markka, 1 April 1860 Map of EU 2010 Greece 2 euros 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon The bird on the shield symbolises the birth of Western civilisation in its present form Map of EU 2010 Portugal 2 euros 100th anniversary of the Portuguese Republic Map of EU I also have the 1st Estonian euros to scan and post
The three you show here are fairly nicely designed in my opinion. As for this year, the €2 commem from Slovakia has already been issued, and the next ones (Jan/Feb) will be Luxembourg, the Netherlands (!) and Germany. Oh, and I have good news for you: Next year there will be another common issue, commemorating 10 years of the euro being legal tender ... Christian
Ah, yes, the battle of Marathon! It reminds me of the story as to why the 1984 Olympics were in Los Angeles. Teheran, Iran (the Shah was still in power) was the front runner and they made a little request as the host country, as host countries were wont to do. They wanted to cancel the Marathon, as every student of ancient history knows who lost the battle. That was the deal breaker. LA got the games.
LOL thats a good story not sure how true it was but still good Well scanned my Estonian but wont bother posting them all as the design is the same so just 3 A silhouette map of Estonia above the word Eesti, Design by Lembit Lõhmus
The map of Estonia has already caused some headaches. First some people in the Seto region (ethnic Estonians in Russia) complained that their area is not shown on the map, then the Russian embassy in Estonia complained that the map includes areas which are not in Estonia. As for the design(s), well, their decision to use only one I find quite disappointing, but at least they made it a little more interesting by displaying the map raised on some denominations and incused on others. And if you look very closely, you will see that the €2 coin has two map details that the other pieces do not have: It depicts the islands of Vaindloo (northernmost point of the country) and Nootamaa, the westernmost point. Christian
one point about the estonian coins, you can buy them from the estonian phillatellic bureau for less than the average ebay price.
Note that, if you want to buy loose coins, you need to buy each denomination separately: http://www.post.ee/9522 You can also buy a (BU) set: http://www.post.ee/9518 Christian
The Royal Dutch Mint has announced that their 2011 Dutch commemorative program consists of 2 commemoratives. For each, as usual, a 5 Euro piece (a silver plated copper circulation coin at face value and a silver proof coin) and 10 Euro piece (a golden proof coin). The Themes will be: "Netherlands and the art of painting", scheduled for May 2011. "50 years of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), scheduled for September 2011. There are no designs available yet. (The info above was taken from the pdf "MuntPers Catalogus 2011" on http://www.knm.nl/Verzamel-info/nl/page/177/)
Here's my two Euros, I have more but I haven't gone thru them yet. Hey were there ever any errors minted that are now worth more money? Is there a book on these Euros?
Don't expect to find any treasures. There are a few error pieces, such as the German "radial stars" variety (2002 only) or the French "wrong" edge of the 10 ct 1999 coin. Some of the Irish and Portuguese €2 coins dated 2002 have a Dutch edge inscription. The Spanish €2 commem of 2007 came in two types - small stars on the obverse (more common) and big stars (somewhat rare). Portugal €2 2008: about 100,000 were produced with the wrong (old) map. Then there are a few (very few) Italian coins dated 1999; those were destroyed at the mint. Since none of the pieces left the mint "legally", the Italian government is the rightful owner of any piece that turns up "in the wild". If you have any of those, don't tell anybody. As for catalogs, sure, there are several. The Schön (in German), paperback style, now has more than 800 pages because of all those regional collector coins ... Not sure what is available in English; Leuchtturm/Lighthouse makes one, I think. Christian
Cool, I appreciate the information. I'll take a look at what I have, hey what year did they start using Euros anyways?
Depends. Production of the euro and cent coins started in mid-1998, and the euro was "born" on 1 January 1999. But during the first three years only non-cash transactions were possible in € while the coins and notes remained the old ones (franc, mark, etc.). On 1 Jan 2002 the euro cash became legal tender in the first member states. That is why some of these countries used "1999" as the first year to appear on their coins while others used "2002". Christian
