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Coin I can't identify
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:28 pm
by Maddin
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?
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:01 pm
by wisi
I guess it the "common" coin of belgium and luxemburg.
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:03 pm
by batataxpto69
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.
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:14 pm
by Maddin
Thanks a lot you two!
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:42 pm
by Fons
I have received one of those in circulation last week, in Ommel, a village close to Helmond (NL).
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:22 pm
by mirandolina
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
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:56 pm
by lazza
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
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:23 pm
by Dakkus
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.)
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 6:17 pm
by tabbs
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
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:33 am
by hoppa
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.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:45 am
by Phaseolus
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
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:48 am
by Dakkus
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
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:29 pm
by lazza
Dakkus wrote:OF COURSE the Finnish national emblem is a lion! What else could a lion symbolize than Finland?!?!?!?!?!?!1+1+!?!?!?!?????+
Britain?
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:35 pm
by androl
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
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:30 pm
by Nomen Nescio
Have you noted a certain feature of the Finnish lion ?
It treads upon an eastern sabre and proudly swings a straight western sword.
