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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jlblonde, post: 1371885, member: 32000&quot;]The line usually indicates an unknown mintage. Unknown as far as Krause is concerned. The may have not gotten the mintage records from the issuing country or the mint as of the time when the catalogue was published. This frequently occurs when a country has a disorganized minting system, too many variant issues, bad or loose record keeping, or they switch to a revalued or new currency. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of Greece, I would put it on them changing to the Euro. They may have held releasing the mintage numbers, as well as other records, on purpose when they changed to the euro in order to hide their financial status. Of course, this is all speculation on my part. Nevertheless, it seems to be in line with what&#039;s happening in Greece at the moment.</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally I believe they were already under water (financially) when they joined the EU and Euro monetary system. Changing to the euro only made their debt that much greater because the euro was valued much much higher than the Drachma. They should have stayed with the Drachma, paid down their debt and then joined. They wouldn&#039;t be in so much trouble if they had. Most of their debt dates back to the 90&#039;s and early 2000&#039;s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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