Euro Coins facts
While investigating facts about Euro Coins Value and Euro Coins Images, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The coins thrown into Rome's Trevi Fountain every year amount to around 3,000 Euro and are used to subsidise a supermarket for Rome's needy.
how euro coins are made?
The only compensation a Pope receives is three bags. Each bag with gold, silver, and copper euros, is filled with an amount of coins representing the number of years served by the Pope. The Pope is paid once he is dead and the bags are placed beside the body inside of the casket.
What euro coins are there?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what euro coins are rare. Here are 14 of the best facts about Euro Coins And Bills and Euro Coins By Country I managed to collect.
what euro coins are worth money?
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The coins from Rome's Trevi Fountain are collected daily and given to charity (approx. 1.5 million Euro annually).
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An estimated three thousand euros in coins are thrown daily in Fontana di Trevi, Rome, Italy.
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Predating the Euro by over 130 years, The Latin Monetary Union standardized the value of member nations' currencies, pegging the Franc/Lira at .29 grams of gold. So for example an Italian 20-Lira coin had the same value as a Swiss, French or Belgian 20-Franc, which made commerce much easier.
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The Euro currency has more than €1.2 trillion in circulation and is one of the highest combined values of banknotes and coins in circulation in the world, having surpassed the U.S. dollar in Aug 2018.
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The size of euro banknotes and coins increases with their value
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There's a EU official document stating which side of a Euro coin is the head (*obverse*) and which is the tail (*reverse*)
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1- and 2 euro coins release 240-320 times more nickel than is allowed under the European Union Nickel Directive.
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The magnets used in CERN ATLAS' particle accelerator are so sensitive that they will shut-down if just one millijoule – the energy deposited by a 1-centime euro coin falling from 5 cm - leaks through their supercooled protection
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Marianne is the name of the woman used to personify France in art, propaganda and French Euro coins.
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1- and 2 euro coins can release up to 320 times the amount of nickel that European Union (EU) regulations say triggers skin reactions in people allergic to the metal.
What is true about euro coins?
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Luc Luycx, the designer of (the common side of) all euro coins, put his initials 'LL' on every coin.
The majority of Euro coins are produced by a company that also produces cluster bombs - source
