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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 185682, member: 39"]Well, that was kind of odd. In some areas (e.g. restaurants) the cash changeover was indeed used for price hikes in early 2002. Many other products/services were not or hardly affected, but people tend to compare prices of what they buy almost every day. At least here in Germany the difference between what is called "felt" or "perceived" inflation ("everything is twice as expensive as before") and the actual inflation rates (even a little less than in the last D-Mark years) was enormous at that time. That is pretty much indeed. Since you can get them at face value, a complete collection would not be awfully expensive, but still quite a lot. (About 20 euro or 26 dollars per year, for that series alone.) Hehe, you could instead collect the German States series - one €2 piece every year (not counting different mintmarks) but the program will run until the year 2021 ... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Guess that I would not collect the entire series of Polish Cities coins. What is nice, however (apart from the neat designs), is that people can say, this coin shows "my" city, and maybe get a couple of pieces for themselves, for friends and relatives, etc.  If there was a coin featuring my home city, I would certainly do that. Christian[/QUOTE]