hardest to find coins

[Ewri]

Hi!!!
I found a MONAKO 1€ 2002 in circulation in Maribor, Slovenia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it!!!!!!

wow, nice one

[Jes]

Hi!!!
I found a MONAKO 1€ 2002 in circulation in Maribor, Slovenia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it!!!!!!

Mmm...

Yesterday my Mom got the CC 08 and a friend of mine EMU (D)

Mmmm.... mmm....

I think I'm going to Slovenia in my next holidays

you lucky gus!!

[zabaks]

Weirdly, I found Finnish 1c here in Wien last year. (somebody claimed they were not minted for circulation) And it has 2006 on it, which is more confusing... If Finland minted only a symbolic amount for 2002 EUR introduction, and then immediately started to round prices to 5c, why to mint 1c in 2006?

[EdSe1991]

Finish 1 and 2 cents are minted (some million pieces a year) but they are not in use. Therefore they are very hard to find . However stores have to take 1 and 2 cents if you pay the rounded price.

[Dioniz]

Mintage quantities of 1 cent 2006 (Finland): 3.924.400

Source: http://www.euro-auflagen.de/index.php?l ... mode=nokms" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[zabaks]

Thanx for the link, nice one.
So, Finland keeps some 1c 2c mintage, with reasonable amounts. And what they do with those coins, pool to other countries?

[EdSe1991]

Does anyone know if the Finnish 2 € from 2006 with the new map design is found in circulation.

[Dakkus]

Thanx for the link, nice one.
So, Finland keeps some 1c 2c mintage, with reasonable amounts. And what they do with those coins, pool to other countries?

The coins are sold to collectors, they are not circulating coins. (although they are valid currency and some people do put them into circulation just for fun)

[Nomen Nescio]

Does anyone know if the Finnish 2 € from 2006 with the new map design is found in circulation.

Yes, they're circulating. If you are lucky, you can even find one ( at least in Finland ).

[T. Santos]

I'm looking for Luxembourg 2€ CC 2007... It seems that is also hard to find... at least for me...

If some one has it in double send me a PM and maybe we can make a swap.

[Nomen Nescio]

Thanx for the link, nice one.
So, Finland keeps some 1c 2c mintage, with reasonable amounts. And what they do with those coins, pool to other countries?

The high quality stuff is sold onto the collectors' market, the poor stuff is sold as souvenirs to tourists with quite nice profits in both cases .....

[Bollivierke]

EDIT: Sorry. The information given here seems to be incorrect. Check the reality from the pie diagram below

Of course I could see more from my eurodiffusie.nl statistics.
But here's how I feel it is:
Some 80% of the coins are Finnish.
The foreign ones are most likely from Spain, Germany or France. All Benelux countries are rare - I actually see about as many Portuguese coins as I see coins from the three Benelux countries added together. Since January 2002 I have seen two Letzebuërgish coins.
Also Greek and Italian coins are relatively easy to find. Austrians are surprisingly common, taking into account that I can't figure what kind of connection Finland and Austria have got with each other.

I have tons of Belgian coins lol.
I've never seen a CC from Ireland in circulation before here. Neither the 1 cent. Still looking for them

[anto989]

I found 2 pcs of 5cent italy 2003 (1.844.000 total minted) in this week,i've been very lucky

[DBpbzfa766]

thats good

last week i found in the Moneybag from my friend a 20ct Coin from Finnland 2003 !!!!!! 543.500 Pieces Worldwite from this thats is my best Found in this Year ^^

[europaee]

I went to bank today and I got 100 x 2Euro coins, so here are my stats for Dublin:
Ireland: 49%
France: 14%
Spain: 8%
Germany: 8%
Belgium: 6%
Italy: 4%
Netherlands: 3%
Portugal: 2%
Austria: 2%
Finland: 1%
Luxembourg: 1%
Slovenia:1%
Greece: 1%