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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1240946, member: 39"]Told you that I would reply, Clinker. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Interesting posts - not because these are pieces I rarely see but because these coins I use every day. By the way, the first euro coins were minted in mid-1998; it's just that some countries decided to use "1999" as the first year on their coins (as the euro was "born" on 1 January 1999) while others used "2002" (as 1-Jan-2002 was when the euro coins became legal tender). Also, the smaller denominations are actually called "cent", not "euro cent". That is why on the cent coins the word "euro" is much smaller than the word "cent". But I guess that, if you live in a country that uses cent coins, you want to differentiate ... Commemorative euro coins (€2 pieces with a special obverse design) are legal tender throughout the currency union, just like the circulation coins. The pieces that are legal tender in the issuing member state only are officially called "collector coins", see <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/coins/pdf/types_coins_en.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/coins/pdf/types_coins_en.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/cash/coins/pdf/types_coins_en.pdf</a>  But as that is at least partly different from "traditional" terminology, quite a few here, even governments, sometimes mix the terms up. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Of these six, only three (Monaco, San Marino, Vatican) have monetary agreements with the European Union that allow them to issue euro coins. Andorra made such an agreement earlier this year, and will start issuing euro coins in 2013. Christian[/QUOTE]

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