The Eurocoin Pages "The Eurocoin Pages provide you with information about Euro Circulation Coins, including Euro Commemorative Coins, variants and errors. Besides you'll find also all issued special occasion Euro Collector Coins, Euro Coin Sets, euro patterns, euro essais, euro trial strikes, euro tokens and test euro's. Before exploring this site it may be usefull read the Euro Coin Glossary." The Eurocoin Pages ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Euro "Welcome to the European Union’s website on the euro, Europe’s single currency." "The euro is the currency of twelve European Union countries: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland." The Euro -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Plus Monaco (by arrangement with France), and San Marino and Vatican City (by arrangement with Italy).
Almost eight years later, neither link works (for me) ... Here are two current ones: Euro Coins (European Commission) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/coins/index_en.htm (with sub-categories about the common sides, the national sides, the commemorative €2 coins, etc.) Euro Coins (European Central Bank) http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/coins/html/index.en.html Currently (March 2014) eighteen EU member states have the euro: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain. And there are four non-EU countries that have monetary agreements with the European Union and can thus issue euro coins: Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican. Christian
Quick update: Lithuania will (as from 1 Jan 2015) be the next euro area member state. This page shows the chosen design (seems they wanted only one design for all denominations): https://www.lb.lt/projects_of_lithuanian_euro_coins In terms of paper money, the "first generation" euro notes are still valid and circulate. The new ones, from the "Europa" series, are issued step by step: Last year the new €5 came, followed by the €10 this year. http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/ Christian
