TYE - Ten Years of Euro banknotes and coins

Depicted in the image is the result of my first swap with Jose, from Murcia, Spain, last February. He sent me these magnificent TYE 2012 commemorative coins (from Estonia, Slovakia, Germany and Greece, and also the 2011 "The Special Olympics World Summer Games - Athens 2011" Greek coin , in exchange for several portuguese commemorative coins.

Citizens and residents of the euro area have selected the winning design for this new euro coin issued by all euro area countries to commemorate ten years of euro banknotes and coins in January 2012. Using web-voting, they had five designs to choose from. Those designs had been pre-selected by a professional jury at the close of a design competition that was open to citizens from all euro area countries.

The winning design symbolises the way in which the euro has become a true global player over the past ten years, as well as its importance in day-to-day life, with various aspects being depicted: ordinary people (the family of four), trade (the ship), industry (the factory) and energy (the wind power stations).

The design was created by Helmut Andexlinger, a professional designer at the Austrian Mint.

Issuing volume: 

Greece 2011 - 1.000.000 

Estonia TYE - 6.000.000 

Germany TYE - 30.000.000 (5 different mintmarks - A, D, F, G and J - 6 million for each)

Slovakia TYE - 1.000.000 

Greece TYE - 1.000.000.

Greek EMU

Issuance year - 2009, January

George, from the country who created the Democracy, Greece, sent me all the coins depicted in the image, as a result of our last swap, happening last October.

The rare and magnificent 2009 commemorative EMU, but also one commemorative 2007 Rome Treaty and several missing currency, all from Greece, in exchange for portuguese coins and one Malta EMU coin.

Thanks, George.

Issuing volume of the Greek EMU: 4.000.000

Cherry on top of the cake

Treaty of Rome

Issuance year - 2007, March

Long waited, this greek coin has finally reached my possession. This one and all the others, depicted in the 3 last posts, are the result of my last exchange with Wendy, from The Netherlands.

So far, there are two commemorative coins that the euro countries have issued jointly: this one, in March 2007, to commemorate the "50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome" and in January 2009, the second, to celebrate the "10th anniversary of Economic and Monetary Union".

Issuing volume: 4.000.000

Commemorative Greek Olympic Games

Issuance year - 2004

In August 2004, the Olympic Games returned to the country where they were born over 2,500 years ago, and to Athens the city of their revival in 1896. So the Greeks have issued 35.000.000 of this commemorative and wonderful coin.

Unhappyly, at this moment only one coin is available to swap.

Greece

On January 1, 1999 eleven European member states adopted the euro as their currency and started producing the coins in order to replace their national currencies by January 1, 2002. Following a delay of exactly two years, Greece was also accepted into the Eurozone but it became impossible for the Hellenic Mint to produce 1300 million euro coins in time for the January 1, 2002 changeover to the new currency. The officials decided to order 500 million coins from abroad (Spain, Finland and France) and these coins feature two different mintmarks: the anthemion flower, which can be found on all the Greek modern coins and a small letter indicating the mint in which the coin was struck.

Mintmark "S": Finland (Suomi) on the 1 and 2 euro coins - inside star nº 7
Mintmark "E": Spain (Espana) on the 20 cent coins - inside star nº 9
Mintmark "F": France on the 1, 2, 5, 10 and 50 cent coins - inside star nº 3, 9 and 11
Click here to see the image of the eight special and beautiful greek coins.

YEAR	0,01 €	0,02 €	0,05 €	0,10 €	0,20 €	0,50 €	1,00 €	2,00 €
2002-E					V
2002-F	V	V	V	V		E
2002-S							V	V
2002	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	E
2003	E	V	V	V	V	V	E	V
2004	E	V	V	E	V	V	E	V
2005	E	V	V	V	V	V	V	V
2006	E	E	V	V	V	V	V	V
2007	?	?	V	?	?	?	V	?

E-Easy to get ---- - -- --- V-Very difficult to get------ - - ----

Missing coins:
Like the finnish coins, they are so beautiful as difficult to find.

2002-F
2003			5 c	10 c	20 c	50 c		2 €
2004			5 c		20 c	50 c		2 €
2005			5 c
2007					20 c	50 c		2 €
2010	1c	2 c	5 c	10 c	20 c	50 c	1 €	2 €

Last Update: 03/11/2010