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mbird Valued Member United States 62 Posts	Posted 09/24/2010 3:31 pm Wikipeida says about the 2 Euro coin: "The coin dates from 2002, when euro coins and banknotes were introduced in the 12 member eurozone and its related territories." Why do they say 2002? When was the first 2 Euro coin put in circulation? I see there are 1999 coins from several member countries? Thank you! Edited by mbird 09/24/2010 3:34 pm Report this Post to the Staff

jgfindring Rest in Peace United States 1380 Posts	Posted 09/24/2010 3:43 pm In gearing up for the change over to Euro coins, countries started minting the coins well ahead of time so as to have no shortages on the introduction date. Some countries minted them with the 2002 release date regardless of when they were minted, some countries dated them to match when actually minted, hence you can have a 1999 dated euro for certain countries, even though it wasn't issued for circulation until 2002. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16816 Posts	Posted 09/24/2010 8:59 pm Some countries (such as France) have laws preventing their mint from issuing circulating coins with false dates on them - coins must be dated in the year they were actually struck. 1999-dated euro coins were struck in 1999, then stored until the actual day of release on 1st January 2002. In other countries (such as Germany), most of the "2002" euro coins were actually struck in the period 1999-2001. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
redlock Pillar of the Community Germany 992 Posts	Posted 09/25/2010 03:38 am Here you have an excellent chart about the mintage (when and how much) of Euro Coins: http://www.euroauflagen.info/index....n&mode=nokms Report this Post to the Staff
Eurocoin Valued Member Finland 294 Posts	Posted 09/25/2010 11:33 am At least in Finland euro coin production started in 1998, but because of eurosystems "not legal tender" status in 1998, they are just dated 2002. When eurozone was officially born in 1999 they started to use actual minting dates in Finnish euro coins. Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 09/25/2010 12:38 pm Quote: At least in Finland euro coin production started in 1998, but because of eurosystems "not legal tender" status in 1998, they are just dated 2002. Right; and that also applies to the French and German euro coins for example. The French mint started making euro and cent coins in May 1998, the five German mints began in August 1998. It's just that France decided to use 1999 as the first date because on 1-Jan-1999 the euro was introduced as a currency, while Germany picked 2002 as the first year as on 1-Jan-2002 the euro cash became legal tender. So the Wikipedia quote in the initial post is right ... Christian Edited by chrisild 09/25/2010 12:40 pm Report this Post to the Staff
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