> > And, to the Europeans on this list, may I say that the euro is a thoroughly
> > dull currency. It really took all the fun out of collecting European coins
> > and bills. :(
> Well it either makes it easier or harder depending on the way you look
> at it.
Not really easier in the sense that each country has their own designs
for the backings of the euro coins, although surprisingly a large number of
exchange shops offer full sets of various countries' euro coins in
collector's boxes, which make "mint" sets easy to obtain. When I was in
Venice last year, I picked up several of these.
However, the coins themselves are all (naturally) interchangeable and
aside from the backings are exactly the same. Some countries (sorry, Finns,
I think the Finland euro set was the worst here :P ) had exceptionally
boring coin backings, to boot.
At least the old regional/country-specific currencies had some character
in that the designs, sizes and denominations differed notably and sometimes
very widely.
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