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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2765955, member: 39&quot;]Oh, it&#039;s very easy - in terms of continents, there is North America and South America. The people in one country in one of the two continents are (the) Americans. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Also, in a political context you will often see &quot;Europe&quot; referring to the European Union - of course the two are not identical, but the landmass does not make any political decisions ...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dunno, maybe the attitude has changed in the past 15 to 20 years. Maybe public opinion in the US was or is primarily influenced by that in the UK which had never anything to do with the euro and will soon be out of the EU. And of course here in the euro area you also have people who dislike the currency, just as you have people who are against, say, nuclear energy or tuition fees. Now when it comes to coins from around here, some have really plain designs while others almost suffer from the designer&#039;s ambition to not leave a single blank spot. Here is another one (image from Wikipedia) that some collectors may and did find odd:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/9/96/Finnland2014IlmariTapiovaara.jpg/800px-Finnland2014IlmariTapiovaara.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If the image does not show, <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/9/96/Finnland2014IlmariTapiovaara.jpg/800px-Finnland2014IlmariTapiovaara.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/9/96/Finnland2014IlmariTapiovaara.jpg/800px-Finnland2014IlmariTapiovaara.jpg" rel="nofollow">click here</a>. That is a commemorative €2 coin (Finland 2014) honoring the designer Ilmari Tapiovaara. You don&#039;t see him, you don&#039;t see an (entire) object he designed - all you get is part of a chair. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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