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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 3348354, member: 39&quot;]&quot;Looked&quot;? These days I do not buy many coins (in fact, hardly any) for various reasons, but nevertheless find them interesting or even fascinating. So a major show like this one, where many mints, lots of dealers and coin related industries/businesses are present, is definitely enticing ...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886636[/ATTACH]</p><p>The French Mint would give away Simone Veil €2 coins (single pieces or rolls) at face value - and you could even get their free (!) &quot;World Money Fair 2019&quot; medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886637[/ATTACH]</p><p>Yes, these things resembles euro notes. But why the zero?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886638[/ATTACH]</p><p>Because they are private issues that do not have any cash value. At the WMF, I got an autograph from and briefly talked to Richard Faille, the man who created this series of souvenir notes. These are quite popular here, also because with regard to various design and security features they resemble our banknotes, and are even made by a company (Oberthur, FR) which also prints actual euro notes. Faille&#039;s signature on the left is a real one; his small sig on the right is printed.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886639[/ATTACH]</p><p>The obverse is issue specific, the reverse is always the same for a year, featuring various prominent sites in Europe.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]886640[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is Mr Faille. Now in my opinion the series suffers to some extent from the plethora of issues even &quot;for&quot; non-euro countries. So I asked him about that, and he has a point: A collector should always focus on something- regions, themes, etc., like what you do when you collect coins ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The next day I took photos at museums, so this is it for the World Money Fair. But I will show you some more images.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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