Every country that is a member of the Eurozone mints their own coins with their own motifs. Only the paper notes are standardized.
To illustrate: these are all the (different) coins in my wallet:
(values from left to right: 1 Euro, 20 cent, 10 cent, 5 cent, 1 cent)
The only countries I can determine are Spain (twice), Germany (thrice), Greece (once) and the Netherlands (once). Mostly because Spain and the Netherlands wrote their country's name on their coins and Greece used Greek letters.
8 Comments
HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org · 15 pts · 285d
The Greek Eurocent coins were also unique for being labelled in lepta, the old subsidiary unit of the drachma.
thomas_klopf@dobbs.town · 8 pts · 285d
@PugJesus reminds me of this
zebidiah@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 285d
Wait.... There is different Greek euro coins than the rest of Europe? Do all European countries have their own euros?
I always assumed a centralized currency went hand in hand with the eu membership
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 285d
Every country that is a member of the Eurozone mints their own coins with their own motifs. Only the paper notes are standardized.
To illustrate: these are all the (different) coins in my wallet:
(values from left to right: 1 Euro, 20 cent, 10 cent, 5 cent, 1 cent)
The only countries I can determine are Spain (twice), Germany (thrice), Greece (once) and the Netherlands (once). Mostly because Spain and the Netherlands wrote their country's name on their coins and Greece used Greek letters.
Twongo@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 285d
all countries have their specific coins :) amd sometimes there's a limited few for anniversarys or in honour of someone.
germans depict their architecture, dutch depict their royalty, croats got 50 cents with nikola teslas face....
always makes you wonder where the foreign coin you just paid with has been so far.
StarkRG@myside-yourside.net · 7 pts · 285d
@PugJesus I support this and all other attempts at confusing the hell out of future archeologists.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 285d
1 EYPQ
hoot hoot
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 285d
That's EYPΩ
Osteopenia_Powers@newsie.social · 3 pts · 285d