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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JBK, post: 47058, member: 1101&quot;]Usually, no, and yes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some coins (Greece, for example) were outsourced early on when the large quantities were being minted for the eruro’s introduction.&nbsp; They have littler mintmarks in one star to show if they were one of these.&nbsp; Some other countries also outsourced some of their minting, without any special designation on the coin (but I know some 2 euro coins have the wring edge inscriptions as a result of the contracted country using it’s own lettering instead of that for the customer country.) </p><p><br /></p><p>They are otherwise minted by each country (except maybe for the smallest countries, which might outsource).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Some contain “privy marks” showing the mintmaster or other person, but I personally do not consider these mintmarks as such, as all the coins have the same mark.,</p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of Germany, however, there are five mints, and each has it’s own mintmark.&nbsp; As far as I know, no other country has multiple mints, or at least they do not have individual mintmarks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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