Coin I can't identify

Maddin · Post by **Maddin** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:28 pm

Just came back from shopping and I found I 2€ coin I can't identify. It shows two heads and on the left side there's an "H" and on the right you cann see an "A", both with a crown on top. The year is 2005, but where is it from?

Post by **wisi** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:01 pm

I guess it the "common" coin of belgium and luxemburg.

batataxpto69 · Post by **batataxpto69** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:03 pm

It's a Belgium commemorative coin with the Effigy and monogram of King
Albert II of Belgium and Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, symbolizing the friendly relation between the two countries.

Maddin · Post by **Maddin** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:14 pm

Thanks a lot you two!

Fons · Post by **Fons** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:42 pm

I have received one of those in circulation last week, in Ommel, a village close to Helmond (NL).

mirandolina · Post by **mirandolina** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:22 pm

My Austrian nephew got one last week in Massa (Italy) and asked me if I knew what it was, thanks to EBT I was able to tell him

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:56 pm

I had my first "new" design today at Amsterdam airport... in other words, it was a design I had never seen before during all my travel and holidays in Europe over the last few years...

Just checked the design... it's a Finnish €0.50

not so exotic, then

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:23 pm

Something in me feels like having been kicked on the balls.
OF COURSE the Finnish national emblem is a lion! What else could a lion symbolize than Finland?!?!?!?!?!?!1+1+!?!?!?!?????+

(So, I am not very hurt, after all.)

tabbs · Post by **tabbs** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:17 pm

Dakkus wrote:What else could a lion symbolize than Finland?!?!?!?!?!?!1+1+!?!?!?!?????+

Düsseldorf of course.

http://www.duesseldorf.de/thema/inet/wa ... c_tiny.jpg

Well, the new Finnish coins will be a little easier to identify. Here is the 5 ct piece, but the design is the same for all "cent" denominations:

Note the small FI country code near the "four o'clock" and "five o'clock" stars.

Christian

hoppa · Post by **hoppa** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:33 am

Dakkus wrote:What else could a lion symbolize than Finland?!?!?!?!?!?!1+1+!?!?!?!?????

Flanders

It's all in dutch, but you can even listen to the Flemish anthem.

Phaseolus · Post by **Phaseolus** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:45 am

hoppa wrote:
Dakkus wrote:What else could a lion symbolize than Finland?!?!?!?!?!?!1+1+!?!?!?!?????

Flanders

It's all in dutch, but you can even listen to the Flemish anthem.

The republic of Venice

I remember having seen lions in the Zoo of Antwerp. I admit I did not visit a zoo in Finland, only Moominland, so I can't say if there are lions over there

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:48 am

Phaseolus wrote:
hoppa wrote:
Dakkus wrote:What else could a lion symbolize than Finland?!?!?!?!?!?!1+1+!?!?!?!?????

Flanders

It's all in dutch, but you can even listen to the Flemish anthem.
The republic of Venice

I remember having seen lions in the Zoo of Antwerp. I admit I did not visit a zoo in Finland, only Moominland, so I can't say if there are lions over there

The Korkeasaari Zoo (an especially nice zoo, to mention) in Helsinki does have some lions, indeed

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:29 pm

Dakkus wrote:OF COURSE the Finnish national emblem is a lion! What else could a lion symbolize than Finland?!?!?!?!?!?!1+1+!?!?!?!?????+

Britain?

androl · Post by **androl** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:35 pm

Dakkus wrote:OF COURSE the Finnish national emblem is a lion! What else could a lion symbolize than Finland?!?!?!?!?!?!1+1+!?!?!?!?????+

Baden-Württemberg!!!1!1!!!!111elfelf

Nomen Nescio · Post by **Nomen Nescio** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:30 pm

Have you noted a certain feature of the Finnish lion ?

It treads upon an eastern sabre and proudly swings a straight western sword.