Please sign in or create an account to manage your collection. Official Coincard of the Federal Ministry of Finance KMB = Kleines Münz Bild ġ, 2 & 5 cents with large and small oak leaves The KMB has a smaller (by about 10%) reverse design. Staatliche Münze Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe, Germany (1827-date) Staatliche Münze Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany (1374-date)

Luycx is a computer engineer, and medallist living in Dendermonde, Belgium, and has worked for the Royal Belgian Mint for 15 years. Also note that the Belgian coins got modified obverse designs this year: Same (somewhat dull) design, but they added the country code and mint mark for example.Luc Luycx is the designer of the common side of the euro coins. Austria, Italy, Portugal - do it this year. Most euro countries introduced the new reverse (with the updated map) in 2007, but others - e.g. Well, I don't do that either - one is fine for me. I just wonder what the people who did not know or did note care about the contest will say when the coins will actually be issued.Īs for the German mint marks, right, you would have to get five instead of one to be 'complete' in that regard. But a 'viral' campaign, in Greek forums, via e-mail etc., to vote for #2 because it was designed by a Greek? Some of those messages even mentioned the name of the designer - duh, the names and countries of the designers were not public, and not supposed to be revealed until the end of the vote.Īh well, the total number of votes was pretty low anyway, so such campaigns could be successful.

starts a 'let's all vote for #2' initiative. Now #2, the winner, is nice for a poster or so, but not for a coin with a mintage of possibly 90 million.Īlso, it is OK of course if some newspaper, website etc. Not that the other design suggestions were that great (see ) but, like many collectors, I voted for #5, the design with the ten little guys. The upper middle part of the lines shows either the European Union with the 15 Member States before the enlargement of or a geographical image of Europe as of 1 January 2007. Will you like the 2009 'Ten Years Euro/EMU' piece? Umm, well. 10-, 20- and 50-cent coins show the denomination, the inscription 'EURO CENT', six vertical straight lines and twelve stars near the edge of each line.

Composition of 20 cent euro coin