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Valued Member
Pakistan
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The 2 Euro commemorative coins seems to be the collector's choice if they want to collect world commemorative coins. I don't know what it is about them, maybe I am missing something, but people seem to be really crazy about these. On a trading website I visit, it is fairly common to see "2 Euro Commemoratives" in the want list, and even if they are not trading currently, they'll have a note "Except for 2 Euro Commemoratives", and next to rare or uncommon coins "Will trade for 2 Euro Commemorative". I've got a "World Food Programme" 2 euro commemorative coin up for trading (by mail) among a whole lot of other coins, and almost every person who wants to start an exchange chooses that as one of the coins (I usually remove it, because having that as one of the coins to exchange somewhat ups the ante on the costs involved. There are apparently 126 different commemorative 2 euro coins at this point. I have 3:  The top left one is 2004 Italy commemorating the World Food Programme. The second on top is from 2009, commemorating 10 years of the euro. Every country issued one, but the one I have is of Spain. The final one is also 2005 from Spain, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the first edition of Cervante's Don Quixote book. You can see Don Quixote with a lance, with the windmills in the background  . So yeah, show off your commemorative 2 euros as well! I bet we could cover the 126 pretty fast. Edited by Babar
06/08/2012 07:13 am
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Israel
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I have an original bank roll of 40 of the World Food Programme 2 Euro coins.
I would be happy to sell it as a lot if any one is interested
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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Yeah, I went on one Euro coin collecting website but since changing browser I don't go on it. They get all obsessive about it, it's not really my thing to be so obsessive, but if that is what they like then so be it.
I do think a massive page of €2 commemoratives doesn't look that great as the designs are usually not so good, but hey, that's the way it goes sometimes. I still collect them if I can, I haven't had a new one for a while, since I lived in Austria in 2009.
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Pillar of the Community
Thailand
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Over the years I've seen a lot of 2 Euro coins being issued as commemoratives in various countries but into general circulation. This gives an added stimulus to world coin collectors.
I think these countries deserve praise for issuing them.
Like Russia for the issue for the 10 roubles of cities and regions.
Personally I like the issue of several Thai 10 baht coins every year for whatever reason.
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Valued Member
 Pakistan
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I too, of course, would still collect them if I got the chance, but I agree, some of the designs look a bit silly. Like that 10 years of Euro one on the left in the picture. It is basically a stickman with the euro symbol! I liked the Don Quixote one, though! And yeah, thai-vic, I like it when commemorative coins are put in circulation, I guess that is a good thing with these 2 euros. Otherwise it just smells to me like the mint trying to make money off collectors. |
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Thailand
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I may be completely wrong but the "stick-man" Euro design may have been submitted by a child.
Quite a few countries,recently, have asked for designs for specific coins and have accepted and produced coins on designs by children. I think that Canada and Australia have gone this way. And what better way to encourage the younger generation to participate and gain an appreciation on specific subjects (within the concept of national pride?
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Pakistan
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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". |
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Australia
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Belgium - International Women's Day  Portugal - Human Rights  Finland - 200 Years of Finland Bank  France - General Charles DeGualle  Steve |
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Germany
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I agree, some of the designs look a bit silly. Like that 10 years of Euro one on the left in the picture. It is basically a stickman with the euro symbol!
I liked the Don Quixote one, though! 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.jpgChristian |
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Rest in Peace
 United States
1380 Posts |
Ok, lets see if I can do this.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
1380 Posts |
Ok, not as big as I had hoped, but maybe useable.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
1380 Posts |
Brass discs indicate a missing coin, copper discs indicate that there is no coin issued for that hole (I like to keep an entire year together, rather than spread over a page break.)  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
1380 Posts |
Keep 'em coming  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
1380 Posts |
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Rest in Peace
United States
1380 Posts |
Guess I could do more than one page per post, but why start now.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Posted 06/08/2012 10:22 am
