Subject: Euro coin collection

no like the old ones but with a little symbol on the right!!

the symbol used to be on the silver part of the €2 coin

now it's on the middle part!!

http://www.fleur-de-coin.com/eurocoins/images.asp

I've got a question. If in all countries coins are different, which are used in Montenegro. There are not any examples in this page

they do not have their own coins they use other countries coins!!

The same applies to Kosovo and Andorra. San Marino, Monaco and Vatican City are allowed to print their own Euro coins.

aha thanks

good luck
if you have the normal ones, you can start collecting the special ones (we have quite a lot of them in belgium ^^) created for special events (175 years of belgium, ...)

interesting idea mate

actually, how many different types of country coins are there so, since the likes of belguim has 2 sets of coins or maybe more!?!

didnt get the topic at first..thought he just wanted some foreign notes and coins.. personally i think the euro is a pile of crap after coming back from oz and having the plasticky notes there which are the business

Each country has one set of coins. They may change it, but they will never mint two different sets at the same time.

Some countries, like Greece or Germany, also print letters or other symbols to indicate where these coins were minted. Strictly they are unique coins, but not double sets since not all cities mint all coins.

You also may want to collect all coins from every country for every year.

All countries mint a limited amount of commemorative coins every now and then. They have the value which is printed on them (their collector's value grows very quickly), but most shops won't accept them. Most commemorative coins are worth €10,- or €20,-, but Greece also minted 1000 €200,- coins.
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and no 1c or 2c coins or all that jazz!

Do you already have Finnish 1 and 2 cts? They're pretty rare and worth at least €5,-

I like that sentence :-)

I just imagine myself wanting to buy something for 5€ and giving the seller 1 Finnish cent, telling him that this is worth at least 5€ :D
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I have 1 and 2 Finnish cents and the euros from san marino and monaco :)

i miss the coins from slovakia to complete the collection

All commemorative coins are also worth more than their monetary value. The first €10,- are now worth at least €20,-.

Here there are some conmemorative,like the 400th aniversary of the Quijote.
I have 1 coin of 2€ with a "World" in it from 2004 where is written "World Food Programme".
Also there are many with the Treaty of Rome.I have the spanish one,but there are one for each country of the Treaty.

and no 1c or 2c coins or all that jazz!

Mind you, in Poland we have 1, 2 and 5 grosz.

~1 euro = 4 zloty = 400 grosz

and is there anything you can buy with a handful of grosz?

(btw funny, in austria we had "groschen" before the euro, sounds like they have the same roots)

i could send you those coins (i am from slovakia, not from czech republic as the flag says ;-) ). But dunno what would be the cost for shipping.