2 Euro Commemoratives

You almost made me feel bad there for a second, thai-vic . But then I checked it up on wikipedia...apparently it was designed by a fellow named George Stamatopoulos, who is a sculptor from the Bank of Greece mint. So I guess he probably isn't a child.

Supposedly, it is meant to represent "the latest step in the long history of trade, from pre-historic barter -- evoked by the deliberately primitive design -- to economic and monetary union".

That is what you get when you let people vote. Both the 2009 common issue (10 years euro/EMU) and the 2012 common issue (10 years euro cash*) were the winners of a web vote; incidentally or not, both were done by professional coin designers.

The Don Quijote/Quixote coin I am not really fond of; it looks a little too "comic book style" to me. The Córdoba piece (2010**) on the other hand I like a lot.

* see http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance...00_sk_en.jpg (same design for all pieces; this is the coin from Slovakia)
** see http://www.muenzen.eu/tl_files/bild...oba-2010.jpg

Christian

Ok, not as big as I had hoped, but maybe useable.

Keep 'em coming

Guess I could do more than one page per post, but why start now.

First time one year takes more than one page (counting regular commemoratives and ones like Treaty of Rome or Anniversary designs issued by every country as separate pages up until now)

Nice collection you have there! :) The problem with those three is that there is practically no way of coming across them in circulation. The MC 2007 (Gracia Patricia/Grace Kelly) piece usually costs a four-digit amount, and the VA 2005 (World Youth Day Cologne) coin is at €150 or so. Granted, most others from the three are less expensive, but still, you cannot get them by swapping at face ...

Christian