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avij wrote:and redesign the coins just for kicks

and for the money.

Countries sell many eurocoins to other countries for a lot of money!

I only collect coins I receive in "natural circulation", i.e. I keep coins that are foreign to the country where I get them. Yes, I admit, when I have to take myself the change out of a box (yes sometimes this happens), and I see a foreign coin, I take it (but I don't search for any other way than with my eyes).

I'm afraid never in my life I will have got all euro coins "by natural circulation", even when hundreds of the most common ones have passed my hands.

Until now I keep track of my foreign euro coins on www.village.in-berlin.de/euro-tagebuch/ (personal details only for myself) .

2004-01-01: not continued, will probably go off-line some day. (Or I will only enter NEW coins, because I'm still collecting)

I also try to promote mixing coins when going on holidays. Coins I already have, I always re-spend. In my experience, the 1..5¢ coins (copper) are very rarely from foreign countries. Contrary to BossaNova http://forum.eurobilltracker.eu/profile ... ofile&u=81
I would say for Germany: here are so many german coins around that the amount of foreign coins will hardly exceed 5 or 10%.

village

village wrote:Until now I keep track of my foreign euro coins on www.village.in-berlin.de/euro-tagebuch/ (personal details only for myself) .

Nice stats ... you should be happy you don't live in Belgium. According to http://www.eurodiffusie.nl Belgium has 37% foreign coins. Your list would be LARGE .
Almost every change I get, I receive a foreign coin, esp. Holland and France, than Germany, Spain, Luxembourg and Italy. Others are quiet rare.

last week I recieved my first Finnish coin by normal circulation
it was a 10 eurocent
and I got it in a Tobacoshop in Mechelen (my city)

!Pretfles! wrote:last week I recieved my first Finnish coin by normal circulation
it was a 10 eurocent
and I got it in a Tobacoshop in Mechelen (my city)

I took a 0.6 litre container full of Finnish euro coins with me to Belgium one month ago. I tried to select the most shiny ones. I spent the coins in Brussels and Antwerp and also in a small village south side of Antwerp (Lint). So, it's theoretically possible you've got my coin. I don't know how far Mechelen is from the places where I spent my coins.

mechelen is just in the middle between antwerp en brussels and only 15 km from Lint
so its possible



Thank you

I have vote:
It's never complete -- I want to have a coin from each year and with all the different variations!

I like eurocoincollecting very mutch!

I just stumbled into this topic since someone brought it up again (I'm pretty new here).

Instead of all of you guys I don't waste my life putting serial numbers in the computer. I prefer to waste it by collecting coins.
I collect all euro coins which are issued in rolls, bags and starterkits (so no BU or Proof) including variants and errors. The extra task I set for myself is to never pay anything extra for a euro coin (nominal value only). I succeed here quite well due to the aid of (a.o.) about ten shop owners who put their foreign coins aside for me.
At present I have hundreds of double coins of each of the 12 countries. I keep these coins (except most of the 1€ and 2€) in case new variants are discovered. With all those doubles there is always a good chance I got such a new variant already laying around somewhere. The other purpose is of course swapping with other collectors.
Before all of you start contacting me, I never swap coins by post. All of my swapping is done 'in person'.
Greetings,

Senior

Aaron wrote:

!Pretfles! wrote:last week I recieved my first Finnish coin by normal circulation
it was a 10 eurocent
and I got it in a Tobacoshop in Mechelen (my city)

I took a 0.6 litre container full of Finnish euro coins with me to Belgium one month ago. I tried to select the most shiny ones. I spent the coins in Brussels and Antwerp and also in a small village south side of Antwerp (Lint). So, it's theoretically possible you've got my coin. I don't know how far Mechelen is from the places where I spent my coins.

Lint.... Cool, that's like in my backyard!
In the weekend I live in Kontich at about 500m from Lint.
But still, I didn't find a single Finnish coins in the mean time

Tiger wrote:

Aaron wrote:

!Pretfles! wrote:last week I recieved my first Finnish coin by normal circulation
it was a 10 eurocent
and I got it in a Tobacoshop in Mechelen (my city)

I took a 0.6 litre container full of Finnish euro coins with me to Belgium one month ago. I tried to select the most shiny ones. I spent the coins in Brussels and Antwerp and also in a small village south side of Antwerp (Lint). So, it's theoretically possible you've got my coin. I don't know how far Mechelen is from the places where I spent my coins.

Lint.... Cool, that's like in my backyard!
In the weekend I live in Kontich at about 500m from Lint.
But still, I didn't find a single Finnish coins in the mean time

Maybe it was a mistake to take shiny coins as people pick them out of circulation easier. I still collect coins to the same container and maybe I'll take them even more with me to Central Europe next summer. This time I have collected any Finnish euros in any condition - some of them are shiny, others are not.

I haven't planned to go to Belgium in the near future though.

We don't have so many foreign euro coins in circulation here in Finland. I wish whenever you come down here please bring with you as many coins of your own country as possible.

When I complete my collection (not paying attention to either years or letters), I will send it to a collector in Vietnam.

I'm not a collector myself, but I knew this collector in Hoi An two years ago, and since I've made up my mind to do this collection. She doesn't even know I'm doing it. In fact, we never got in touch again - she might even be living somewhere else.

lmviterbo wrote:When I complete my collection (not paying attention to either years or letters), I will send it to a collector in Vietnam.

I'm not a collector myself, but I knew this collector in Hoi An two years ago, and since I've made up my mind to do this collection. She doesn't even know I'm doing it. In fact, we never got in touch again - she might even be living somewhere else.

The people who live where she used to live surely appreciate random money appearing to their home ;)

I don't think someone will ever complete his/hers Eurocoincollection, because every country is making new coins in a new year (another year on the back)

But I don't collect coins of different years.

I also don't collect those coins. I spend them again, but not after I looked if I've ever received such kind of coin (or note) the natural way: in Holland or Germany (so not on holiday in Greece for instance). I've made a statistic out of this. It's my own diffusionproject . I will never have this complete, because of the small countries, but whatever...

By the way, you will not find Germany listed, because I had it complete in the first week of 2002 already.

I am not sure...
Anyway, I think I willl never finish my collection as I miss a lot of coins (I miss allmost all the commemorative 2 Euro coins and some coins from Finland...)