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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i am interested in buying some euro coins but the ones I am interested in are listed as euro pattern what does that mean? for instance it will say 2003 5 euro pattern thanks for the help
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Typically a pattern is a prototype strike that is intended to give the designers of a coin an idea of what the finished coin will look like. Patterns are usually not legal tender. When it comes to Euros, there are a lot of sets of "fantasy coins," or non-legal tender coins that serve as models/ collector sets. many of these fantasy sets are released by European countries that are part of the EU, but are not yet on the Euro.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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well the coins I am interested are from great britain and I know they dont use the euro yet so that makes sense thanks for your answer
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Many of these fantasy sets that I have seen are from Malta and other countries that are planning to eventually be on the Euro, but England...I don't think that they have released such sets since they have no plans to ever be on the Euro.
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Most of these "euro-pattern sets", or better "fantasy euro's" are not issued by governments or national mints, but by private persons and enterprises in order to get a quick profit from collectors who want to invest in euro's. As already said, these so-called pattern sets are issued for countries which don't use the euro yet.
About Malta: before the introduction of the euro, many of these so-called pattern sets were issued. The moment Malta was going to introduce the euro, the government officials didn't look at these sets, but looked for a new design for their coins, independent of these "pattern-sets".
Pattern euro's are no coins, they're not official whatsoever
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i totally agree with bart. Stay clear of these "coins."
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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Actually some of them are quite nicely designed, but yes, of course they are just medals. This collector has quite a few of those fantasy issues: http://ret001qm.eresmas.net/eu-ingle.htm (beware, lots of images). For a coin collector, however, buying UK euro patterns makes about as much sense as buying Swiss or Mongolian euro patterns ... At least some "pattern" pieces are funny.   Christian |
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Italy
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as already said from other, these coins sets called Euro pattern are produced from a company that is using euro coins image to sell some products that are only fantasy "coins", this company is producing several sets from all countries that could be in the euro coin system in future, from UK, to Sweden, Poland and several others.
If you are interested in euro coins the countries today minting official euros are:
Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland.
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Posted 05/07/2008 11:14 pm
