Tracking Euro Coins

bhoeyb NLI · Post by **bhoeyb NLI** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:55 pm

Dakkus wrote:How on earth did they all gather together?

Probably, it was just an international Europallet meeting

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Phaseolus · Post by **Phaseolus** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:29 pm

Dakkus wrote:I don't know what these are in English, but I'd sure like to track them:

As you can see, the first one is from Finland and the three other ones from Germany. But that's all the picture tells. It doesn't tell anything about the route of those things :/
It's always funny checking piles like those. I've seen a rather small pile with those things from as diversely located places as Spain, Hungary, Poland and Germany. So, quite an international pile that was
But just.. How on earth did they all gather together?

These are Europallets...

I know where to find plenty of them...

Senior · Post by **Senior** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:45 am

Putting stickers on coins is mainly done in the Netherlands. I know a person who collects 'euro coins with stickers on them' and helped him to collect since many euro coins went through my hands before I went to South America. Many stickers are peeled off (often leaving a sticky coin), and those that remain seem to travel in quit a low speed. I only saw some German stickers (of a club close to the Dutch border) and 1 Spanish sticker (of a place where probably many Dutch youngsters go in their holiday). It definitely does not seem a feasible idea to me.
Greetings,

Senior

androl · Post by **androl** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:50 pm

How do they look like? How big are the stickers? Covering the whole coin, or only parts?

Poutsi · Post by **Poutsi** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:53 pm

Dakkus wrote:I don't know what these are in English, but I'd sure like to track them:

As you can see, the first one is from Finland and the three other ones from Germany. But that's all the picture tells. It doesn't tell anything about the route of those things :/
It's always funny checking piles like those. I've seen a rather small pile with those things from as diversely located places as Spain, Hungary, Poland and Germany. So, quite an international pile that was
But just.. How on earth did they all gather together?

They are called pallets. In my workplace we get shipments weekly at least from the UK, Denmark and Germany, but I haven't seen any country stamps in them. Even though they are all standard EUR sized pallets.

BTW at least in Finland there's country specific pallet size (FIN pallet, 1,0 m x 1,2 m opposed to EUR pallet 0,8 m x 1,2 m). :p

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:33 pm

Poutsi wrote:
Dakkus wrote:I don't know what these are in English, but I'd sure like to track them:

.. pallets .. I haven't seen any country stamps in them.

They aren't actually country stamps, but railway company stamps. They've got either the names or the logos of the national railway companies. Therefore:

= Germany
VR = Finland
SNCF = France

= Spain
MÁV = Hungary

= Portugal

= Belgium

= Italy

= Poland

= Czech republic

In my pic above you can see at least three DB-stamps (=Germany). The fourth one is either DB or VR, I can't really see it well enough :/
Most of the pallets seem to come from Germany, although I've also seen a lot of Polish ones :)