tabbs Posted August 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2006 Most will be circulation pieces, some may be NCLT, none will be trash. The €2 pieces are intended to be circulating commemoratives, and most euro countries issue them that way. But there are others that sell them in coin cards or folders only. Update: According to this article http://www.mdm.de/shop/action/magazine?pageid=10804 (in German, scroll down a little) all 13 EU euro countries will take part in the issue program. Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted September 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2006 Seems that the five German mint locations will each make six million pieces: http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/cln_...709__PM116.html Interesting, by the way, that this very media release was worded a little differently earlier today. It first said that the coin had been designed by the Italian artist 'frizio' (see above). Then frizio wrote in another forum that he had nothing to do with the actual design and that he had just created the unofficial 'localizations'. Duh. The release text has now been fixed ... Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted November 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 Poor Frizio! Now even the Mint of Finland used the "localized designs" that he made. He was quite surprised when somebody pointed that out to him ... http://www.numismatico.de/files/finrom_823.jpg (~400K) http://www.rahapajamoneta.fi/fi/dokumentit...oneta4_2006.pdf (~8 megs, -> p. 10) Edit: Today the coin catalog author Schön posted an image of an actual €2 (DE, J) commem here: http://www.numismatico.de/files/de_2007_rv_j_482.jpg Hope the link works; maybe you need to be logged in over there, maybe not. Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted November 9, 2006 Report Share Posted November 9, 2006 I think it's a terrific design. Can't wait to get them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted December 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2006 Hungary plans to participate in the program too. While not a euro country, it will issue a circulating commem with basically the same design: http://www.numismatico.de/files/kkk_448.jpg This will be a 50 forint coin, to be issued in March. http://english.mnb.hu/Resource.aspx?Resour..._evi_program_en (Commemorative Coins Schedule 2007, PDF, ~400K) Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted January 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Luxembourg used a trick. Seems they insisted on having their head of state on the coin ... and the result is a piece with a latent image. http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8366/lu...hevertrayy9.jpg Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saankarite Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Luxembourg used a trick. Seems they insisted on having their head of state on the coin ... and the result is a piece with a latent image. http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8366/lu...hevertrayy9.jpg Christian I have another image of the Luxemburg coin. Don't know if it's the final design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted January 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 I have another image of the Luxemburg coin. Don't know if it's the final design. That was one of Frizio's works, I think. He made a whole series of "Treaty of Rome" designs, based on the one presented by the EU last year. His latest suggestion was a piece "for" Belgium with the inscriptions in Latin, to avoid the language issue, hehe. Apart from those, he has made several designs http://spazioinwind.libero.it/friziofrizio/eurofantasy.html ... neat ones, bad ones, funny ones. Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted January 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Interesting. Although I must admit that I would be suprised to see "Suomen Tasavalta" (Republic of Finland) used. No, it seems that this name is not used on the Treaty of Rome commem either. This is what the Finnish piece will apparently look like: http://www.numismatico.de/files/fi-2euro2007rom_159.jpg Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted January 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Oh, and Belgium apparently participates with a tri- or even quadrilingual piece. According to what Gerhard Schön (the catalog author) posted to a German forum, the BE piece will say PACTVM ROMANVM QVINQVAGENARIVM (yup, Latin) with the country name in French, Dutch and German: BELGIQUE · BELGIË · BELGIEN). Above the treaty document it says EUROPA/E which works for all Belgian languages ... Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aidan Work Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 I wonder what the Irish one will look like.Ireland has 2 official languages - English & irish-Gaelic (Erse).Perhaps the Irish one will be inscribed in both languages,or solely in English,or even solely in Erse. Aidan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted January 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Judging from what Ireland has done so far, regarding its recent coins, I assume that the country name will be "Eire" but the other inscriptions will be in English. On the other hand, Irish/Gaeilge is now an official EU language, so the government may want to emphasize that aspect and make the piece bilingual. Have not seen the Irish design yet ... Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aidan Work Posted January 21, 2007 Report Share Posted January 21, 2007 Christian,I will end up getting the Irish one,as there has been very few circulating commemoratives since Ireland changed over to decimal currency back in 1971. It would be nice to see an Irish coin inscribed in Erse,apart from the country name. Aidan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted January 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Aidan, you may also be interested in the contribution from Cyprus. Like Hungary, the country does not have the euro (in the case of CY that would be "not yet") but also issues a coin with the common theme, and a face value of 1 pound. The coin says, in the upper half of the ring, ΣΥΝΘΗΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΡΩΜΗΣ - 50 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ and and in the lower part ROMA ANLAȘMASI - 50 YIL. Above the treaty and the Campidoglio pattern, "EUROPE", below "£1". Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted January 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 News about the Irish piece: According to what Gerhard Schön wrote in a German forum, the text will indeed be in Gaelic only. conradh na róimhe 50 bliain an eoraip éire 2007 Have not seen a picture yet, but that sounds cool. Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted January 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 And this is a (tiny) first picture of the Dutch piece. Apparently they use "Koninkrijk der Nederlanden" as the country name on the coin. Source: http://nl.knm.nl/domains/knm/content//2EU_Rome100.jpg Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vielwerth Posted February 4, 2007 Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 The designs is great, but this year will be expensive for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted February 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 The designs is great, but this year will be expensive for me Not just for you. On the other hand, these Treaty of Rome coins will all be made in relatively large quantities: Fewer in the smaller countries (Slovenia 400,000 - Luxembourg 2,000,000), more in the bigger countries (France and Spain 9.6 million each, Germany 30 million). The number does not exactly depend on the population but also on whether a country plans to issue a regular €2 coin (or a second €2 commem) this year or not. You may also want to check out the swap meets right here (we have members from several euro countries) and/or of German/European forums such as muenzen.net, Numismatico or Euroswapper. So unless you have to get proof or prooflike pieces, that collection should be affordable ... Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted February 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2007 The zwei-euro.com website just posted nice closeup pictures of the latent image on the Luxembourg coin: http://www.zwei-euro.com/2-euro/luxemburg/...ramm-herzog.jpg (with Grand Duke Henri visible) http://www.zwei-euro.com/2-euro/luxemburg/...ramm-normal.jpg (with the "regular" design) Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted February 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Update - Finland According to Gerhard Schön (author of various coin catalogs) the edge inscription of the Finnish coin is "ROMFÖRDRAGET - 50 ÅR - EUROPA". On the obverse of the coin you have the text in Finnish ("ROOMAN SOPIMUS - 50 V - EUROOPPA"); the edge has the Swedish language version. Update - Germany The mintage figures for the five German mints, compiled by euronumis.com ... A (Berlin) 1,165,000 D (Munich) 14,665,000 F (Stuttgart) 8,165,000 G (Karlsruhe) 5,165,000 J (Hamburg) 1,665,000 Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted March 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 The European Commission's website now has detailed info about the mintages, and also nice large pictures. Belgium (5 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_be.jpg Germany (30 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_de.jpg Ireland (4.82 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_ie.jpg Greece (4 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_el.jpg Spain (8 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_es.jpg France (9.4 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_fr.jpg Italy (5 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_it.jpg Luxembourg (2.1 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_lu.jpg Netherlands (6.333 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_nl.jpg Austria (9 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_at.jpg Portugal (2 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_pt.jpg Slovenia (0.4 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_si.jpg Finland (1.4 million coins) http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n.../2007tor_fi.jpg Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted March 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2007 The coin(s) will officially be issued tomorrow. There won't be too many places, though, where you can get them on a Sunday. In Germany, for example, some pieces are available at a coin show in Stuttgart. (Edit: see pictures from muenzblog.de below) The actual circulation pieces can be had from the usual sources - central and commercial banks etc. - as from Monday. In some member states it may take longer, though, until all pieces are issued. Here are the coins and, at the bottom, links to a press release and the EU Official Journal: http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/euro/n...mmemorative2007 Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Accoding to the KNM, these will be available from today, in the post offices. So I went there, but our local post office didn't order them.. Will try another post office later this week. I might go for a whole roll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlavicScott Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 got my Slovenian issue today, very happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 got my Slovenian issue today, very happy. Yep, I have that one too. For me that was the most expensive of the ToR pieces ... Later this week I should also get the ones from Cyprus and Hungary. Basically the same design, but not euro coins of course. Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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