10th Anniversary of the Euro

[Paint Your Wagon]

She (Europa) can stay at my house until I get my hole dug!!! Then she can hide with me!!!

There is enough of them to go around
I will take the Spanish one

[Paint Your Wagon]

I will leave the French rendition for whomever wants her ( figuratively speaking  )

[Twoshadows]

Yes I see your point. I have a few silver Europa coins in my collection that I consider "keepers" for their interesting art (beauty). The French tend to act if they MUST be different and lean to the modern side of the art form which I have noticed since the intro of the Euro in 2002. Seems they have this need to be different? The Vatican City coins was surprising as Europa is definitely modeled very well on that coin so I understand the smile of the Pope's face on the other side!!!

[Paint Your Wagon]

Well Monnaie de Paris churns out like 70 designs per year
So they must have a permanent design team instead of may the best one win type of contest approach they took in 1780
I stopped my French collection like in 2003 . Now they are in square coins and smaller coins .
Unfortunately the Austrians are churning out even worse Art Nouveau for lack of a better name and in much larger amounts too
It all looks like a modern twist to Jugendstill .

I have no Vatican coin whatsoever allthough like 10% of all coins on offer today on ebay germany seam vatican coins .

[Twoshadows]

I quit buying from the Vatican when they decided to get into the profits, just like the secondary market players. Proof sets went from around $48.00 to $125.00 which I found excessive and nothing short of gouging and that is by religious leaders? The U.S. does just the opposite. They attempt to control our secondary market by mass producing EVERYTHING. For the most part it works and that is why so many U.S. collectors are NOW world wide collectors.

[Nighthawk]

That's me, Terry. I've gotten away from collecting U.S. stuff, and collect more world coins than ever before! I just got sick and tired of the JUNK put out by the U.S. Mint. Sorry if I offended anyone!

[CoinCrusader42]

It's a 360 degree turnaround.

When I first started collecting coins there was NOTHING other than circulating coinage.

Then, the Government discovered the citizens could be cash cows, and now it's the other extreme.

 

[Goose]

And one wonders why I haven't ordered anything from the U S mint since 1964. To me (Thanks to KOTCT), there is more value in old foreign silver coins (+ a few nice copper/bronze coins) than the vast quantities of garbage that the U S mint puts out every yr.

[Paint Your Wagon]

I quit buying from the Vatican when they decided to get into the profits, just like the secondary market players. Proof sets went from around $48.00 to $125.00 which I found excessive and nothing short of gouging and that is by religious leaders? The U.S. does just the opposite. They attempt to control our secondary market by mass producing EVERYTHING. For the most part it works and that is why so many U.S. collectors are NOW world wide collectors.

The vatican has/had a bank Ambrosio or something like that
They were the first umpteen years back to be into defrauding
They have been burning eretics for fun and at a time there were two popes one in Avignon
They helped every living highranked nazi to escapt to South America by a boat arranged for by the pope
The present pope has been in the Hitler jugend
It is not my fault I was born roman catholic but I recognise a punter when I see one

[Paint Your Wagon]

And one wonders why I haven't ordered anything from the U S mint since 1964. To me (Thanks to KOTCT), there is more value in old foreign silver coins (+ a few nice copper/bronze coins) than the vast quantities of garbage that the U S mint puts out every yr.

Some of the new coins from Monnaie de Paris like the one about Lourdes go for more then 400 year old coins
Go and figure who is creaziest . The mint laughing and pocketting the money or the silly collector buying this shit.
I learned my lesson in 1968 in postage stamps I still have and which are only good to stick on envenlopes ( they never expire )

[Twoshadows]

It took me years but I finally USED up my stamp collection as postage. I have a few remaining, mostly space stamps, and those items that did not sell on Ebay. Have a stamped envelope with, if I remember correctly, 22 million miles on it. The envelope flew on the Challenger and as we all know that can't be done again. Quite a colorful folder, along with information and 3 postmarks. They couldn't land when and where they were supposed to so on to the desert they went. Take off postmark, failed landing postmark and actual landing postmark. And of course a photo of the crew. There is a letter stating how the US postal service teamed up with NASA to bring us this rare and unusal commemorative in a once in a lifetime opportunity. I actually sat down and figured up how many millions of dollars they made (from stamp collectors) for putting that small box of envelopes on board that flight. If I remember correctly it was over 13 million. Sure was nice of them to provide the space for that box full of envelopes on the Challenger to benefit us stamp collectors. The government is sooooooo good to us!


For what it is worth I am going to offer the two Vatican coins for sale on this forum at a cheaper rate than I would sell them elsewhere. If your interested check out the "For Sale" posting between now and the 6th as that is when I will put them on Ebay.

[Mortyr2012]

Ok, back to topic a bit
The German Bundesbank is going to issue these EMU coins on January 5th. I will certainly be there and visit them to get some rolls

Marvin

[triggersmob]

Did someone call??

[Twoshadows]

Hey I see Triggersmob is sporting a new 2009 hairdo!!! You Aussies are always on top of things!!!

And KEEPING on topic for this thread! I love the $2 euro and those SILVER commemoratives! And of course the old classics from ALL over the world. There I am on topic (at least I am trying).

[Nighthawk]

Did someone call??

SHUCKS! Us American's are way ahead of them Aussies when it comes to hairstyles!