questions on Euro coinage

kuhli

Will the "common" designs of the Euro coinage be changing after this year?

All denominations from 10 cent and up carry a map of Europe, showing only the EU member nations. (the 12 that currently issue Euro coinage, United Kingdom, and Sweden). With the addition of several new nations into the EU, will the map be modified??

Also, all denominations have the 12 stars representing the 12 Euro coin issuing nations. As more of these new member nations begin issuing official Euro coins, will more stars be added?? Or perhaps a whole new design will be made??

Has any of the current 12 Euro coin issuing nations changed their "homeland side" designs yet? Are there guidelines as to how often they can be changed? Changes are inevitable for several of them, especially those with Monarchs' portraits.

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spoon

I was going to ask this very same question

I haven't been keeping up with what's going on in €uro collecting, but as I recall the common obverse cannot be changed except by all nations.. so if it were to be updated it wouldn't be just one country at a time. I am curious as to when that obverse will be updated?

I know the French recently(?) released this NCLT, first euro coin I know of with the enlarged map:

spoon

Hmm.. this from Wikipedia, not sure if they're sticking to that plan disregarding the new members until 2007, sounds like EU stubbornness though:

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Design changes
No further changes will be made to the common side of the coins until 2007 at the earliest. It is expected that eventually the 10 new E.U. members will be added to the common face of the euro coins (they will be out of date from 1st May 2004).

Member states may not change their national reverse for five years. There are some exceptions, though. If the head of state of a country dies or abdicates, coins depicting the new one may be minted.

Regarding the minting of commemorative coins, the European Commission lifted the ban in late 2003. From that time any eurozone country may issue commemorative €2 coins. These coins will be valid through all the eurozone.

[ I might add that this official Euro page by the ECB is a real piece of #$%^ ]

spoon

Ah... I just picked up the new issue of M&P and it has some info on the EU enlargement.. more about the commems current countries are pumping out than plans for future members or € circ coinage but I'll try to include a summary of the info soon. Still really busy here. Wish I had more time to post things lately

SYRACUSIAN

It will take time for the new members to enter the euro, and therefore I doubt that they'll change the current design in the near future.
Their local currencies will have to go through a period of stabilisation with a limit upto 15% increases or decreases /

New commemorative euro that has entered circulation just a few days ago:text