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					<h1>Collection Updates</h1>
					<h6>…and some site updates too</h6>
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			<section>
				<p>
					This is the site changelog; all updates and changes to the website or
					my collections are documented here.  Due to logistical reasons this is
					only available in English.
				</p>
			</section>

			<section id=14-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today I met up with Adzivu from the
						<a href=https://discord.com/invite/dM3rHy4ANk>
							Euro Coins discord server</a>!
						We had a few beers, and did perhaps the largest face-value swap I
						will ever do; a staggering €2,008.28 was the face-value of just one
						side of the swap for a total of €3,974.16 exchanged total!  As part
						of this swap I got some goodies that won’t be listed on the site
						such as a Croatian Euro starter-pack, and uncirculated rolls of both
						German 2023 commemorative coins.
						<br /><br />
						What I <em>did</em> get however that actually is now listed on this
						site, is one new commemorative coin from Luxembourg — the “Henri
						&amp; Adolphe” commemorative from 2005, and <em>20</em> new
						banknotes!
						<br /><br />
						The new banknotes are (and for everyones sake I will abbreviate the
						ECB presidents’ names): €10 Austria (2002; WD), €10 Austria (Europa;
						CL), €20 Germany X (Europa; MD), €20 Ireland (Europa; MD), €50
						France E (Europa; CL), €50 France E (Europa; MD), €50 Greece (2002;
						WD), €50 Greece (Europa; MD), €50 Netherlands (Europa; MD), €50
						Spain (2002; MD), €100 Austria (2002; MD), €100 Austria (2002; WD),
						€100 France E (Europa; MD), €100 France U (Europa; MD), €100 Italy
						(2002; JCT), €100 Spain (Europa; MD), €200 Austria (Europa; CL),
						€200 France E (Europa; CL), €200 France U (Europa; MD), and €200
						Germany (2002; WD).
						<br /><br />
						With the new German €200 banknote from 2002, I now also finally have
						one of every type of euro-banknote!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=13-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Another day, another €1000 hunt of €2 coins.  This hunt only got me
						2 new finds, but 2 new finds are still 2 new finds!  Both of them
						were German commemoratives in the form of “Hamburg” (A; 2008), a
						coin with a mintage of only 1M — and “Karl der Große” (D).
						<br /><br />
						With the new “Hamburg” (2008) find, I now have the full set finished
						and only need 3 more mintmarks to complete the entire German
						commemorative series from 2004–2022.  Additionally, the “Karl der
						Große” find brings me a little closer to finishing the German
						commemorative series as a whole with only 10 mintmarks missing from
						2004–2023.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=12-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today I went ahead and did another €1000 hunt of €2 coins, and it
						was pretty successful!  In this hunt I got nine new finds — two of
						which are commemoratives and one of which is a microstate.
						<br /><br />
						The new commemorative finds were both from Germany; “Erasmus
						Programme” (J) and “Karl der Große” (A).  The Erasmus coin is the
						last missing mintmark for me, so that’s cool — and the “Karl der
						Große” coin is the first of it’s kind that I’ve found, so that’s
						also cool!
						<br /><br />
						The other seven finds were: Finland 2002 &amp; 2008, France 2014,
						Italy 2006, Monaco 2011, and Spain 2008 &amp; 2009.
						<br /><br />
						Also small site update — the 1-, 2-, and 50c denominations as well
						as the €1 denomination from Estonia have been marked as “not minted”
						for the year 2023.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=10-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today was a special day, because todau was the Dag van de Munt 2023!
						The <em>Dag van de Munt</em> is the once-a-year open-day of the
						Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt (Royal Dutch Mint).  At the event I met
						up with EuroCoinHunt, and got quite a lot of goodies!  Not all
						goodies are relevant to this site of course — but one that
						<em>is</em> was my first ever circulated commemorative coin of a
						non-standard denomination!  In this case, EuroCoinHunt purchased a
						2023 year-set using €5 “Jaap Eden” commemorative coins from the
						Netherlands!  As I was after him in the line, I managed to exchange
						one of these for €5 — and just like that — my first
						non-standard-denomination commemorative coin!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=08-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today I got some rolls for a soon-to-occur in-person swap with
						another Discord user for a <em>bunch</em> of banknotes, and some
						rolls too. I took this time to also get 10 rolls of €2 coins for
						myself too and the hunt granted me 3 new finds and 2 NIFCs!  The new
						finds I got were: Austria 2013, Italy 2011, and Germany 2006 (D;
						NIFC!).  I also got Netherlands 2005 — an NIFC — but not one that is
						new for my collection.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=07-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I got more stuff in the mail today, and this time with lots of new
						1- and 2-cent coins for my dateruns!  There was also a new
						commemorative €2 in there for me.  The new commemorative was the
						“Falcone &amp; Borsellino” coin from Italy (2022).  The new standard
						issue coins I got are: Finland 10c (2008), France 1c (2018), Germany
						1c (2005 G, 2013 D, 2014 A, 2015 J, 2018 J), Germany 2c (2003 A,
						2004 A, 2005 D, 2006 F, 2009 A, 2012 D, 2018 D, 2019 F), Germany 5c
						(2020 F), Greece 20c (2021), Portugal 5c (2005), and Portugal 20c
						(2003).
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=05-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I did a 20 roll hunt of €1 coins today.  Nothing super notable in
						this hunt, but I did get two new finds.  I got an Italian 2012 and a
						Finnish 2006.  Not much, but two finds are still two finds!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=02-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						And it is once again, mail day!  Today’s swap comes from Germany
						with one new commemorative and twenty new standard issue coins (one
						of them being an NIFC!).  The new commemorative was “Treaty of
						Élysée” (2013 D).  This completes all of this designs mintmarks for
						me, and now means that I only need 5 more mintmarks to complete the
						entire German commemorative mintmark set from 2004–2022.  The new
						standard issue coins I recieved are: 50c 2005 (G; NIFC!), 20c 2020
						(G), 10c 2017 (J), 10c 2021 (F), 2c 2015 (F), 2c 2016 (G), 2c 2017
						(G), 2c 2018 (J), 2c 2020 (J), 2c 2021 (A), 2c 2021 (F), 2c 2021
						(J), 2c 2022 (J), 1c 2016 (A), 1c 2016 (F), 1c 2016 (G), 1c 2017
						(A), 1c 2018 (D), 1c 2019 (A), 1c 2021 (D).
						<br /><br />
						Today also had another coin hunt.  This time I hunted: 16 rolls of
						€1 coins, 1 roll of 20c, 1 roll of 10c, and 2 rolls of 5c.  The new
						finds of the hunt were: France 5c (2016), Germany 5c (2013 G),
						Greece €1 (2006), Greece €1 (2011), Italy €1 (2005), Netherlands €1
						(2016), Portugal €1 (2015), Spain €1 (2012), and motherfucking
						<strong><em>Vatican City €1 (2013)!!!</em></strong>  This might be
						the best find I’ve ever found since I started collecting…
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=31-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Mail day yet again!  Today I got 12 new circulated commemoratives
						from Münzenjäger on the
						<a href=https://discord.com/invite/dM3rHy4ANk>
							Euro Coins discord server</a>.
						These are: Estonia “Baltic States” (2018), Finland “Markka” (2010),
						Greece “Battle of Thermopylae” (2020), Latvia “Zemgale” (2018),
						Luxembourg “Constitution” (2018), Luxembourg “Voting Rights” (2019),
						Malta “EU Flag” (2015), Monaco “Admission to the UN” (2013),
						Slovakia “Constantine &amp; Methodius” (2013), Slovakia “European
						Union” (2014), Slovakia “Universitas Istropolitana” (2017), and
						Slovenia “Barbara of Celje” (2014).
						<br /><br />
						All the coins I recieved from this swap and the swap from the
						previous site update were swaps where I gave the exact same coins I
						recieved, except I gave uncirculated coins and recieved circulated
						ones back.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=26-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						It’s mail day again!  Today in the mail I got 5 new circulated
						commemoratives from Finland.  They were: Sauna Culture (2018),
						University of Turku (2020), Åland Islands (2021), Ballet (2022), and
						Erasmus Programme (2022).
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=25-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I just did another quick 50c hunt today.  During the hunt I found:
						Finland 2011, Germany 2022 (F), and Spain 2002.  Not super exciting,
						but all new finds nonetheless.  I also found Vatican City 2016!  I
						already have it though, so to the Vatican stack it goes.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=23-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today had another 50c hunt and it was a lot more successful than the
						last one!  In total I had 4 new finds and a nice keeper.  The keeper
						was a Dutch coin from 2004 with a mintage of 300K.  I already have
						this coin so I will probably give it to someone else.  My actual
						finds were: Finland 1999, Italy 2022, Spain 2010, and best of all…
						Germany 2007 (F)!  The German 50c is my 4<sup>th</sup> German NIFC
						(all the others are also 50c) and my first German NIFC with the
						second map!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=22-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I visited an ATM after work today hoping to get some 2002 notes.  I
						didn’t get any — but I did get an Italian €20 note with the
						signature of Christine Lagarde.  That brings me down to only 3 notes
						remaining for the €20 Europa series!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=21-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today I did a large 50c coin hunt.  I went through 800 coins and
						sadly there were no microstates or NIFCs… but I did still manage to
						get two keepers — Netherlands 2009, a low-mintage coin but one I
						already have — and France 2022, a year that is new for me!  Both
						coins are in excellent condition.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=20-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I got some notes out of an ATM today, and managed to pull a French
						€20 from 2002 bearing the signature of Jean-Claude Trichet — that
						was pretty cool!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=19-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I did a €1000 hunt of €2 coins today.  It started very slow with
						almost no finds, but of the few finds I got, they were of quality!
						The hunt got me 5 new standard-issue coins and 2 new
						commemorative-issue coins.  The standard-issue coins are: Germany
						2014 (A), Germany 2017 (A), France 2020, Finland 2004, and…
						<em>Finland 2015!</em> The Finnish €2 coin from 2015 has a mintage
						of only <em>169,100!</em>  The commemorative-issue coins were:
						France “Erasmus Programme” and Greece “EU Flag”. The Greek
						commemorative has a mintage of ~750,000.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=18-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Right before my flight back to Eindhoven today, I got two new finds
						from the vending machines and ATMs.  A San Marino 50c from 2020 and
						a €20 banknote from Portugal with the signature of Draghi.
						<br /><br />
						After landing, I met with a friend of Petros, a user from the
						<a href=https://discord.com/invite/dM3rHy4ANk>
							Euro Coins discord server</a>.
						He gave me an envelope of 2002 banknotes with
						a face-value of €180.  In the envelope were the following new
						additions for my collection: Austria €5 (JCT), Greece €10 (WD),
						Greece €20 (JCT), Portugal €20 (MD), and Spain €50 (JCT).
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=17-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today I left Malta to head back home.  I had a layover in Treviso
						and did some vending machine hunting which got me a Spanish €1 2015;
						a new year for the collection.
						<br /><br />
						I also got some banknotes from an ATM and got a new €50 banknote in
						the form of an Italian note bearing the signature of Lagarde.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=16-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I got an Italian 20c 2020 in my change today; a nice new find.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=15-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today I visited the Ġgantija Temples and did a quick shop hunt
						afterwards!  There was a souvenier shop right across the street from
						the temple and I asked to take a look at their €2 coins.  In the
						cashier I managed to find another Maltese commemorative!  This one
						was the “The Peace” commemorative from 2017… and it also had the
						coincard mintmarks making it a 30K mintage NIFC!  That’s why it’s
						not yet listed on the site; the coincard variants will be added in a
						future update.
						<br /><br />
						I also managed to get a German 10c 2022 (D) in my change at the
						temple giftshop when purchasing a Kinnie (a fantastic Maltese
						drink!), so that was a nice new minor find.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=14-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today was pretty uninteresting.  I wasn’t able to get anything new
						besides a Maltese 20c 2020 from a vending machine.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=13-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today I spent the day exploring Valletta along with “La Maltese”
						from the
						<a href=https://discord.com/invite/dM3rHy4ANk>
							Euro Coins discord server</a>.
						To our meeting he was kind enough to bring a few new Maltese 1c
						coins for me from 2013, 2017, and 2021.  He also got me 2 rolls of
						€2 coins from which I got Italy €2 2018, Germany €2 2014 (D), and
						most excitingly of all, the Maltese “Nature &amp; Environment” €2
						commemorative!
						<br /><br />
						At the end of the day I did a vending machine hunt in Valletta which
						yieled me four new Maltese €1 coins from the years 2016, 2019, 2020,
						and 2021.  It also yieled me two Maltese temple commemoratives!
						“Sadly” one of them was a duplicate for me, the Ħaġar Qim Temples
						coin.  The other temple coin was for the Ġgantija Temples which I
						thought was also a duplicate, but I later realized that it had the
						same mintmarks around the year that is found on the variants sold in
						coincards.  That made that coin an NIFC find with a mintage of only
						30K!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=11-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
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					<p>
						This was a pretty successful day with a lot of new finds!  Firstly,
						before my flight to Malta from Pisa I did some vending machine
						hunting.  This yieled me with a 2021 Vatican 50c coin which wasn’t
						new, but also yieled me with the following new coins: Germany 20c
						2015 (A), Greece 20c 2019, Italy 50c 2007, Italy 50c 2011, Italy 50c
						2012, Italy 5c 2016, Portugal 50c 2021, Spain 20c 2016.
						<br /><br />
						After arriving in Malta, I did some vending machine hunting in
						Marsaxlokk.  This also got me a lot of new finds!  I didn’t have
						many Maltese coins prior so there was a lot to find.  The finds from
						the vending machines were: France 5c 2017, Italy 20c 2021, Italy 20c
						2022, Malta 10c 2019, Malta 10c 2021, Malta 20c 2019, Malta 20c
						2021, Malta 50c 2017, Malta 50c 2019, Malta 50c 2020, Malta 50c
						2021, Malta 5c 2017, Malta 5c 2020.
						<br /><br />
						Finally, my girlfriend got a Maltese 5c coin from 2015 in her change
						at a Spar.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=10-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
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					<p>
						Today I left for a trip to Malta where hopefully I’ll find some nice
						coins!  My flight left from Eindhoven with a layover in Pisa.  At
						Eindhoven I managed to get a new coin as change from a vending
						machine when buying a water.  It was a Germany 20c 2013 with the ‘F’
						mintmark.
						<br /><br />
						When I landed in Pisa I put some banknotes into the change machine
						and got three new finds: Italy €2 2022, Italy €1 2021, and Finland
						€1 2005.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=09-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						It’s another mail day!  In the mail today was the Wolf €2
						commemorative from Estonia and a bicentennial Ike Dollar from
						Denver.  I already had the wolf coin in UNC condition, but this is a
						collection of circulated coins so it’s nice to have that now too.
						The Ike Dollar is also great to have; it’s the last bicentennial
						coin I need besides the NIFC proofs.
						<br /><br />
						I also did a coin roll hunt today; it’s been a good while since my
						last one!  I had a good number of standard- and commemorative-issue
						finds today, most of them were common coins I missed but there were
						some really nice rarer finds too!
						<br /><br />
						The standard issue finds were (all €2): Belgium 2003, Germany 2008
						(G), Germany 2008 (J), Germany 2014 (J), Germany 2016 (G), Spain
						2003, Finland 2003, Greece 2002 (S), and Italy 2004.
						<br /><br />
						The commemorative issue finds were: Germany “Erasmus Programme” (F),
						Germany “Hamburg” (2023 J), Finland “Treaty of Rome”, Luxembourg
						“European Monetary Union”, Netherlands “European Monetary Union”,
						Netherlands “Euro Cash”, and Netherlands “Abdication of Beatrix”.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=05-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
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					<p>
						It’s mail day!  I got my coins from a Numista swap today.  In total
						I got 7 new coins with 3 being Italian commemoratives and 4 being
						Vatican 50c coins.  The new coins are: €2 Italy EU Flag, €2 Italy
						“Tito Livio”, €2 “National Police”, and all the Vatican 50c coins
						from 2010–2013 (all the years of Pope Benedict XVI).
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

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				<div>
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					<p>
						I have finally done it, I’ve found a way to hunt coins in the
						Netherlands without purchasing bankrolls or going to a casino!
						There is a Spar on the campus of my ex-university.  This Spar is
						special because it has something that I’ve never before seen in this
						cashless dystopia — a self-checkout machine that accepts cash!
						<br /><br />
						I don’t know how it didn’t come to my mind earlier but by creating a
						false purchase of high value (maybe €500 for example) and then
						dumping all your coins in the coin funnel you can then cancel the
						purchase and get your coins back, except it’s not the same coins,
						but different coins of the same denominations!
						<br /><br />
						What this in effect means is that I can go and just put my coins in
						this self-checkout machine and then cancel my order in a cycle while
						getting new coins every cycle.  I did this for the first time today
						and got 3 new finds!  Two of the finds were regular issue 20c coins,
						Germany 2008 (F) and France 2020.  The other find was a
						commemorative issue in the form of the Dutch Erasmus Programme coin!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=01-05-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						So today was mail day, and it was another American coin.  I got a
						bicentennial Ike Dollar; it’s certainly one of the biggest coins
						I’ve ever held (maybe the biggest ever).  It has no mintmark, so
						it’s a Philadelphia dollar.  This also means that once I get the
						version with the Denver mintmark I’ll have all circulating
						bicentennial coins from the USA!
						<br /><br />
						I haven’t gotten any new euro-coins yet, but there’s a chance I’ll
						be heading to Croatia next week so I’m hoping to get some new coins
						there, or to maybe even do a vending machine hunt!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

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				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I met up with Dan from the
						<a href=https://discord.com/invite/dM3rHy4ANk>
							Euro Coins discord server</a>
						today; he was passing through Rotterdam.  He was generous enough to
						give me a total of €275 worth of 2002 banknotes.  Of these notes, 16
						were new for the collection!  They are as follows: €5 Germany (JCT),
						€5 Netherlands (WD), €5 Portugal (JCT), €5 Spain (JCT), €10 Germany
						(JCT), €10 Greece (JCT), €10 Ireland (WD), €10 Ireland (JCT), €20
						France (WD), €20 Germany (JCT), €20 Ireland (WD), and €50 Italy
						(JCT).
						<br /><br />
						Thanks a lot for the notes Dan!
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

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				<div>
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					<p>
						Today I did what is likely my final vending-machine hunt of my trip
						in the United States.  During this hunt I got 3 new quarters, one
						state quarter, one “America the Beautiful” quarter, and most
						excitedly, one territory quarter!  My 3 new quarters are (in order
						of mint year): South Carolina (P), Puerto Rico (D), and Great Basin
						(P).
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=24-04-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I did another vending-machine hunt at Miami-Dade College again
						today.  There wasn’t too much to get since the vending machines seem
						to have been filled up with UNC rolls of the Bessie Coleman quarters
						but I still was able to get two new state quarters.  These were New
						Hampshire (P) and Oregon (P).
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=23-04-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I passed by Dolphin Mall in Miami today; hunted some more vending
						machines.  Didn’t get too many finds but still a good couple.  Got 5
						new “America the Beautiful” quarters and a new “American Women”
						quarter.  The new “America the Beautiful” quarters were: Denali (D),
						Ellis Island (D), Mount Rushmore (P), River of No Return (P), and
						Shenandoah (D).  The new “American Women” quarter was Edith
						Kanaka‘ole (P).
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=20-04-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						11 new quarters were added to the collection today from a short
						vending-machine hunt at Miami-Dade College.  Of the 11 quarters, 9
						were state quarters and 2 were “America the Beautiful” quarters.
						The state quarters are: Colorado (P), Hawaii (D), Minnesota (P),
						Missouri (D), Montana (P), Nevada (P), New Jersey (D), New Mexico
						(P), and South Carolina (D).  The “America the Beautiful” quarters
						are: Denali (P) and Apostle Islands (D).
						<br /><br />
						I also passed by a currency-exchange office and managed to exchange
						my €500 in cash for my first ever €500 bill.  It costed my new
						French €200 Europa note that I got from another currency-exchange,
						but getting €500’s is a lot harder so it’s worth it.  The €500 bill
						is German with the signature of Wim Duisenberg.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=19-04-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						I did another vending-machine hunt today.  It was a small hunt and
						got me 7 new quarters.  I got the 6 state quarters of: Maine (D
						&amp; P), Michigan (P), Mississippi (D), Texas (D), and Washington
						(P). I also got the “America the Beautiful” quarter of Weir Farm
						(P).
						<br /><br />
						In bigger news, my coins from my swap with Jon have arrived.  He
						included all sorts of extra goodies but they aren’t relevant to this
						site so I won’t be listing them here.  The swap got me 11 new 1- and
						2-eurocent coins, a new American bicentennial coin, a new American
						Lincoln commemorative penny, 3 new NIFC Dollar coins, 3 new state
						quarters, 1 new district quarter, and finally 1 new “Westward
						Journey” nickel.
						<br /><br />
						The eurocents included were: Germany 1c (2009-D &amp; 2013-A),
						Germany 2c (2003-G, 2006-A, &amp; 2006-D), Spain 1c (2002), Spain 2c
						(2009 &amp; 2015), and France 1c (2007, 2010, &amp; 2016).  The
						American bicentennial coin was a half-dollar from Denver.  The
						Lincoln penny was the “Birth and Early Childhood” penny from
						Philadelphia.  One of the NIFC dollars was a native-american
						space-program dollar from Denver and the other two were presidential
						dollars: Chester Arthur (P) and John F. Kennedy (D).  The state
						quarters were California (D), Pennsylvania (P), and Rhode Island
						(D).  The dictrict quarter was my second district quarter so far, a
						Puerto Rico (P).  Finally, the “Westward Journey” nickel was a Bison
						(D).
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

			<section id=18-04-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
				<div>
					<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
					<p>
						Today was pretty successful.  I passed by Chase Bank near closing
						hours and it was a good thing I did too.  The customer right before
						me in the line to the teller deposited $10 in dollar coins.  I
						bought them from the bank and got two new finds: a “Great Law of
						Peace” native-american dollar from Philadelphia, and a Herbert
						Hoover NIFC presidential dollar from Philadelphia.
						<br /><br />
						I also hunted a printer (it accepts cash payment to print stuff).  I
						managed to get 5 new “America the Beautiful” quarters, 5 new state
						quarters, my first ever districts quarter, and a new “Westward
						Journey” nickel.  The “America the Beautiful” quarters were: Block
						Island (P), Great Sand Dunes (D), Homestead (D),
						Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller (D), and War in the Pacific (P).  The
						state quarters were: Connecticut (P), Idaho (P), Massachusetts (P),
						Utah (P), and Wyoming (P).  The district quarter was American Samoa
						(D) and the nickel was a Bison (P).
						<br /><br />
						Finally I visited a currency-exchange office hoping to find my first
						€500 bill.  They didn’t have any but I managed to snag a French €200
						from the Europa series, a new find for myself.
					</p>
				</div>
			</section>

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					<h2>Start of Changelog</h2>
					<p>
						This is the start of the sites changelog.  The site has been around
						since the 11th of February 2023, and this collection began around
						April of 2022, so theres a lot of “history” here that won’t end up
						documented.  If you <em>really</em> care for some reason, you can
						check the git-log of the site on the
						<a href=https://git.thomasvoss.com/euro.thomasvoss.com>
							git repository</a>.
						From now on I’ll be documenting all my new finds here both so I can
						look back on it in the future for fun, and incase anyone finds
						anything here interesting.  I suppose it makes the site a bit more
						human.
						<br /><br />
						I am currently in the United States on vacation, so the next couple
						of site updates are going to be primarily american coins. 
					</p>
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