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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 128637, member: 39&quot;]The first Pfennig coins from the Federal Republic of Germany (1, 5, 10, 50 Pf) also had the year &quot;1950&quot; ... between 1950 and 1965. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Today&#039;s coins from DE have &quot;normal&quot; dates, but the year does not necessarily reflect the time of the production. Might as well be the time when the Ministery of Finance ordered the pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>The early euro coins do not always show the production year either. France and Germany, for example, both started making € pieces in mid-1998. But all French euro and cent coins are dated 1999 or later (since the euro replaced the pre-euro currencies in 1999) or later, while the German coins are all dated 2002 or later (since the euro cash replaced the pre-euro cash in 2002). Kind of arbitrary but, oh well.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the new circulation coins from Azerbaijan, the euro lookalikes issued this year, do (AFAIK) not have a year at all. Seems to work for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dates on circulation coins can be helpful if, say, the metallic composition of a certain denomination changes while the design does not. Then it would be difficult to say that &quot;the pieces before 2005 do not work with vending machines&quot; or &quot;coins from before 2000 are no longer legal tender&quot; if the coins had no visible year ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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