Collecting Euro Coins

Banks will often exchange small amounts of foreign notes for a fee.

Coins...just add them to your collection! I collect all those coins and used the doubles to trade for other coins from other countries.

Coffee. It Australia you can get a "large" cup of coffee about the size of an US "small" cup. In the USA a large cup is eyepopingly BIG. In Europe, they serve the smallest cup of coffee I've ever seen. I took a picture of it in Belgium because I thought no one would believe me, It's like a childs "tea set". Of course the prices for these vary, but generally it's on a par as you are paying for the service not the coffee. Just don't get thirsty in Belgium you'll go bust.





And yes, the cup wasn't filled to the top. (it actually looks bigger in the photo) You guys in the USA don't know how lucky you are!!!
From a coffee addict.

um, so I don't know if you said something about this before (things were getting a bit long for me) but I read that the euro came in in 2002 yet I have some euros and cents that have 2001 and 1999 on them (france, netherlands, spain and some other 50c with some fat dude's head on it) so just wondering about that.

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Originally posted by DondaLonda

um, so I don't know if you said something about this before (things were getting a bit long for me) but I read that the euro came in in 2002 yet I have some euros and cents that have 2001 and 1999 on them (france, netherlands, spain and some other 50c with some fat dude's head on it) so just wondering about that.

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yes it's true they did produce some Euro's then I think they were done by the individual countries ahead of time , but not from the whole union. Maybe they were used to test the popularity and or duability of the coins. Welcome to the forum and I hope you enjoy your stay

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Production of Euro coinage began in 1999. Some of the EU countries, due to individual laws regarding the minting of coins, put the actual date the coin was produced, while other nations, with less strict laws, dated all the coins 2002 (the official date).

Bear in mind, that each individual country had to have sufficient stocks of the Euro coinage on-hand prior to the "big switch", so that they could get all the exchanges done with as little confusion as possible. And not all countries produced their own coinage, so it was necessary for some of the bigger mints to produce coinage for multiple countries. The Greek coins were minted all over Europe, including Spain, Finland, and France (I am not sure about France, but I know there was a third country involved).

Regardless of the date on the coin, they were not legal tender for cash transactions until Jan. 1, 2002.

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Originally posted by kuhli
Production of Euro coinage began in 1999. Some of the EU countries, due to individual laws regarding the minting of coins, put the actual date the coin was produced, while other nations, with less strict laws, dated all the coins 2002 (the official date).

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Ahem. Production of the euro and cent coins began in May 1998. It's just that some countries chose 1999 as the first year to appear on the coins because on 1-1-1999 the euro replaced the national currencies, while others chose 2002 because as you wrote on 1-1-2002 the euro cash became legal tender.

Similarly, the new € coins "from" Slovenia, produced this year, all have the year 2007 because that is when they become legal tender there ...

Christian