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Valued Member
Cyprus
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Hello, this is my first post to this forum. I have recently started collecting 2 euro commemorative coins. Are there any other 2 euro coin collectors out there? Best regards, Ozzie  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'd like to. What do they have on them?
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Valued Member
 Cyprus
349 Posts |
Hello, there are many designs. They started in 2004 with the Greece 2004 Olympics and the most recently issued 2 euro commemorative coin ("CC") is the from Spain 2010:UNESCO World Heritage Series - Cordoba"s Historic Center. Each EU state can also issue their own design. Sometimes they issue the same design with the different country names. eg. Treaty of Rome 2007 and EMU 2009. Sort of like state sets. If you search "2 euro commemorative coins" in any search engine you should be able to see the many designs. Best regards, Ozzie |
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Valued Member
Israel
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Hi
I have a roll of 2 Euro coins (40 coins) issued by Italy in 2004 commemorating the World Food Programme
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Valued Member
Cyprus
349 Posts |
Hello,
Is it possible to exchange 2 euro CC's with other forum members?
I would be willing to doing that if anyone is interested?
Best regards,
Ozzie
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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03/05/2010 09:51 am
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Rest in Peace
 United States
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I have been collecting them. I have all except the 2010 ones and the ones from the Vatican, San Marino and Monaco. I also have 5 or 6 extras and would love to find some one to trade with. I use a Dansco Euro coinage album with 26 mm pages in it instead of the country set pages it comes with. They make a great and interesting set.
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Valued Member
Cyprus
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I have all of the 2010 2e CC's that have been issued except for the Spanish 2e CC's which are in the mail. I have been storing them in capsules and small bags but I like the dansco system. I might have to look into that further.
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Valued Member
United States
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I've picked up a few over the years; I think they're pretty high mintages but often they are very attractive.
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Actually, considering that they are circulating commemorative, I thought they had remarkably low mintages. Many are in the 400,000 to 2,000,000 mintage range. The Lincoln non-circulating commemorative had a mintage of 500,000 and sold out here in two days. Most of the regular 2 euro coins are pretty high mintages though.
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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I collect basically anything, and as I lived in the euro zone for many years in various countries I got some from circulation but they do not travel well so I have bought the rest.
There are two types of €2 commemorative coins, as you can see from the wikipedia showing which is excellent. There are ones issued by one country and those annoying ones issued by all countries with a slight change in name etc.
But I was all into the euro coins at one point, and it makes my life easier having the euro, but I do like going to countries with different coins. Thought about going to ecuador to find they use US dollars, very disappointing!!
But they are something good to collect. And the euro coins in general. Getting the different sets that are availble can be fun, if you like that sort of thing!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Valued Member
Cyprus
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The Finnish designs are nice compared to the designs of say Luxembourg which must (by law) include the effigy of Grand Duke Henri. The design is kind of boring for me. But the mintages are around 1m +/-.
The most expensive 2 euro commemorative coin is the Monarco 2007-Princess Grace Kelly. There are 20,001 of them and they sell for about 1000 euros + (issue price was 14 euros).
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Germany
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Yeah, that is the problem with Euro coins, San Marino, the Vatican and Monaco, why on earth they let them produce coins in such low quantities knowing full well what would happen, I do not know. Very frrustrating. People buy them cheap, sell them on for a fortune.
I don't have them, as I do not see them as coins, because they are not used as coins anywhere, they do no circulate one little bit!
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Germany
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Yeah, that is the problem with Euro coins, San Marino, the Vatican and Monaco, why on earth they let them produce coins in such low quantities knowing full well what would happen, I do not know. Very frrustrating. People buy them cheap, sell them on for a fortune. If you don't like them, don't collect them. The same applies to "those annoying ones" as you put it.  Sure, there is no accounting for taste, and you have every right to dislike them. Others may well find them interesting though. Would not want them (those common issues, that is) to come out every year, but on special occasions like 50 years EEC/EU and 10 years Euro/EMU, I like the idea that they are issued in addition to the other commemorative €2 coins. Particularly because some member states, such as Ireland or the Netherlands, make no other commems, just these common issues and their regional collector coins. As for the three non-EU countries that can issue coins based on monetary agreements with the European Union, you may have noticed in the past couple of years that San Marino does indeed issue coins for circulation. Not many, and not every denomination, but you can fairly easily pick them up there. And the new monetary agreements (SM and VA are done, MC is still in the works) require them to issue half of the volume for circulation. Sounds fine to me ... Christian Edited by chrisild
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