Can Somenone help me?

er_fleky · Post by **er_fleky** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:57 pm

I like the 5 euro coin of Finnland, if someone can buy it for me the coin at nominal value I will be interested, many thanks

best regards

angel

JP Simões · Post by **JP Simões** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:27 pm

€5 coin

alex77r · Post by **alex77r** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:46 pm

There are 2 commemorative coins of 5 euro in circulation in Finland :

Ice Hockey World Championship (2004)
http://www.amisdeleuro.org/catalogue/ci ... 093800.jpg

Athletism World Championship in Helsinki (2005)
http://www.amisdeleuro.org/catalogue/ci ... 093801.jpg

I also search these 2 coins.

JP Simões · Post by **JP Simões** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 6:49 pm

I see. Must say I didn't know of any commemorative coins.

Poutsi · Post by **Poutsi** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:42 pm

alex77r wrote:There are 2 commemorative coins of 5 euro in circulation in Finland

They aren't in circulation. Only the special editions of the 2 € coin enter circulation. These both are available only from Finnish mint and retailers.

JP Simões · Post by **JP Simões** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:43 pm

That's why I haven't heard of them.

alex77r · Post by **alex77r** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:31 am

I have with me a french catalog of eurocoins which says that they have been made to be put in circulation.

Here are the mintages :
5 euro Ice Hockey World Championship (2004) = 150.000 coins

5 euro Athletism World Championship in Helsinki (2005) = 169.995 coins

These numbers are very low and can be the reason why you can't find them in circulation but only in retailers...

aplfi · Post by **aplfi** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:40 pm

No, never in circulation. They were sold to collectors and later the mint tried to buy ice-hockey coins back.

I have that ice-hockey coin. I bought it from the Moneta mint.

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:51 pm

alex77r wrote:I have with me a french catalog of eurocoins which says that they have been made to be put in circulation.

Here are the mintages :
5 euro Ice Hockey World Championship (2004) = 150.000 coins

5 euro Athletism World Championship in Helsinki (2005) = 169.995 coins

These numbers are very low and can be the reason why you can't find them in circulation but only in retailers...

Those coins were never put in circulation in the usual sense. No shops ever got them. The only way they could be got was by buying them from the mint or from a post office for nominal value.
In theory that is putting them in circulation, because the money is "circulating" when it's in some collector's closet. Just like a 20€ note could be said to be in circulation if someone withdrew one from a bank and put it in his money collection closet. That means it isn't in any bank's vaults, anyway :)

But moneta is just a huge pile of goosepoo. I wouldn't recommend doing anything that has to do with it.. (the only exception being the coins that are in completely normal circulation). If you ever let them know of you, your snail mail box will be full of advertisements and you will get "please buy this stupid piece of metal" calls about once a month.

Craft · Post by **Craft** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:03 pm

Dakkus wrote:If you ever let them know of you, your snail mail box will be full of advertisements and you will get "please buy this stupid piece of metal" calls about once a month.

You forgot to mention: for a price that is way over the real market value, or any value that the piece of metal will ever reach, however far in the future.

tabbs · Post by **tabbs** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:42 pm

Zé da Silva wrote:That's why I haven't heard of them.

By the way, there are quite a few Portuguese €5 coins as well. Most of them have been issued in the Unesco (Patrimonio Mundial) series. You can get them at face value in Portugal but, as in Finland, they do not circulate. Part of the "problem" is that these pieces are legal tender in the issuing member state only. So you cannot use a Finnish €5 piece for a payment in, say, Germany, or a German €10 coin in Portugal, etc. That works with the circulation and €2 commemorative coins only ... and with the notes of course.

Christian