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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1035766, member: 39&quot;]Ah yes, it worked fine for me a few minutes ago. As for the Mother Teresa coin, I still don&#039;t think there is a 2009 variety. So either Krause made a mistake (hard to believe since the year can easily be seen if you look at the piece), or they include 2010 coins too. We will see what happens in Berlin in late January.</p><p><br /></p><p>The designs ... I assume that most people who like the Austrian coin, for example, will not like the Finnish coin, and vice cersa. I prefer the piece from Finland, but I am not fond of such &quot;theme&quot; series. (The 2009 coin looks better than this year&#039;s piece though.) Note that the Finnish coin has a tiny colored area too. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Are they coins? Sure, issued by (or on behalf of) some country/government, and &quot;legal tender&quot; there. Are they used for payments? Well, the €2 coin from Slovakia can actually be found in circulation in the euro area. And the Austrian €10 coin could at least theoretically circulate (only in Austria though, not in any other euro country) as it was issued at face. The others were probably surcharged, maybe proof-only, issues - the Finnish and French silver coins sure are.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen the term &quot;medal-coin&quot; for the latter kind before; that I find confusing. I can issue a medal but I cannot issue a coin. The differentiation is also useful for practical reasons: A modern coin will usually be listed in a coin catalog; a modern medal will not. The term NCLT is fine with me; maybe pseudo-coin if one wants something handier. Such awards, however, make sense in my opinion; this way sculptors and other artists may be encouraged to (continue to) design coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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