What happens with my collection after introduction of the Euro ?

Already the old Romans collected coins. At that time, they counted with sesterzen and denaren. Meanwhile the descendants over changed and the numismaths still exist and are glad themselves of their beautiful hobby. As you see, also today a lo people still (also Roman coins!) collecting.

The course-coin-collector take up time now with a tide of different euro coins. Beside the uniform front side, all countrys may arrange the backs of the coins in self-direction. The Netherlands decided for a uniform backside, the German for 3 different backs and Italy for 8 different backs of all 8 coins. Also small states like e.g. Monaco, Vatikan and San Marino may coin/shape own Euros! Furthermore the 2 euro commemorative coins are very desired. Each country here, may each year shaping a singel coin with a motive of international interests.

In Germany there are further coins from the 5 embossing institutes Berlin (A), Hamburg (J), Karlsruhe (G), München (D) and Stuttgart (F).

Thus for the starting year of the Euro, 112 different course coins were coined/shaped!
A quite fastidious task for collecting tanks.

Still interesting are the years 2003, 2004 and 2005! For the currency reform, enormous numbers of items were coined/shaped. For the follow-up years are intended only small quantities. Some smallnominal are not any longer coined/shaped. So price increases are absolutely predictable for these years. After into 2007 some new countries join the monetary union. Therefore, they will have to change the momentary geographic backside, with the picture of the participating states. One may be strained, which state wil be forget dan to change the map of the participating states ? One of the liitle states ?, or perhaps nevertheless one of the big like Italy (1000 Lire 1997) or Germany (50 Pfennig 1950) ?

Information of the German Federal Bank and the EZB (ISBN 92-9181-202-1)
Press release of the Federal Ministry of finances from 11.08.1999 :
All national central banks will exchange the D-mark for Euro, temporally for an unlimited period, quantity unlimited and free of charge.

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