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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1088380, member: 39&quot;]You will know that every euro area member state is limited to one €2 commem per year (or two if there is a common issue too). So don&#039;t expect too many ...</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, in case anybody wonders why a Northumbria Academy student would design a Dutch Erasmus coin: &quot;Dylan Shields, a final year BA (Hons) Fine Art student, was asked to enter his design for Holland&#039;s commemorative coin after visiting the country as part of an Erasmus exchange.&quot; <a href="http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/events/sassnews/eurocoin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/events/sassnews/eurocoin" rel="nofollow">http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/events/sassnews/eurocoin</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I like the idea of €2 commems, and fortunately most euro countries issue them. What I do find annoying is that a designer is limited to the &quot;pill&quot; of such a coin. That makes the usable area even smaller. Yes, the Stars of Europe should be on our money. However, we already have them on the common sides of the bimetallic coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Issues such as the Architectuur Vijfje or the recent Waterland Vijfje (or the Austrian silver-niobium pieces), with innovative designs and materials, would not be possible if we did not have those regional collector coins. But I am glad that there are also commemorative €2 coins which can be used like the regular issues, and wherever the regular issues are used.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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