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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 287337, member: 39&quot;]Depends on which country&#039;s coins you are referring to; here are pictures of the 5 cent coins: <a href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/bc/euro/coins/5cents/html/index.en.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/bc/euro/coins/5cents/html/index.en.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecb.europa.eu/bc/euro/coins/5cents/html/index.en.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>With regard to circulation coins, they made some of the Irish pieces dated 2002 (1 ct, 5 ct) and of the Dutch coins dated 2001 (€2), so the RM &quot;helped out&quot; while the initial supply was being made. But those do not have any special marks. The Royal Mint and some other EU mints, whether in Euroland or not, do however produce various euro collector coins for others.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>One cent is €0.01, thus half a cent is €0.005 - well, the precise rate would be 1 EUR = 1.95583 DEM, but for a pfennig we don&#039;t need to be that precise. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, when I wrote about how cash travels, I should have explained what I had in mind; I was not referring to &quot;foreign&quot; coins. In the Federal Republic of Germany we first had four mint locations, then (after 1990) five. Each of these locations usually &quot;served&quot; a certain geographic area, ie. coins made in Hamburg would be distributed in Northern Germany rather than in the South. And on average the smaller denominations did stay closer to their &quot;places of origin&quot; than the 2 or 5 DM coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Same thing, by and large, with the euro coins. Small denominations will be accepted as change but to a lesser extent carried when traveling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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