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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2765038, member: 39&quot;]Americans in general and CT members in particular may be fond of the idea of the euro being something evil <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> but that is an odd theory. First, the euro was introduced on 1 January 1999, and people could, as an option, make (non-cash) euro payments right away. The conversion however took three years, so in the first member states of the currency union, the euro cash did not become legal tender until 1-Jan-2002. Most countries issued some kind (or several) &quot;goodbye to the franc, gulden, mark, whatever&quot; coins. The designer of this piece, Philippe Starck, did not have any &quot;protest&quot; in mind when he made this design, but of course he and the Monnaie de Paris wanted to commemorate the soon-to-come end of the franc cash. Starck also designed some euro coins - not surcharged like this one, but less elegant.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The idea behind these coin designs - as you mentioned, there are nine denominations in that series - was to keep them fairly neutral, I think. Slovenia had just become independent from Yugoslavia after a very short (10 days) military conflict, and maybe they did not want any text or symbols on their coins that others could have found offensive. They all show various animals and are nicely designed indeed.</p><p><br /></p><p>When Slovenia introduced the euro, its obverse designs became much busier. Not bad, but they would not be part of a thread about simple designs. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit - two fairly simple recent ones from Slovenia: <a href="http://bsi.si/library/includes/slika.asp?SlikaId=465" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bsi.si/library/includes/slika.asp?SlikaId=465" rel="nofollow">This one</a> from 2013 commemorates the Postojna Cave. And <a href="http://bsi.si/library/includes/slika.asp?SlikaId=327" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bsi.si/library/includes/slika.asp?SlikaId=327" rel="nofollow">here</a> is one from 2009, about the tenth anniversary of the &quot;birth&quot; of the euro. That second one was not their fault though <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> but a common issue of all euro area member states.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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