• yetAnotherUser
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    2 months ago

    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:

    Picture of 11 coins each with a different motif

    (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.