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<h1>Collection Updates</h1>
<h6>…and some site updates too</h6>
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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.
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<section id=01-08-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
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<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<p>
I got another letter in the mail today — this time from
Zafeiris on the
<a href=https://discord.com/invite/dM3rHy4ANk>
Euro Coins discord server</a>.
I got 4 news coins! Two of them are €2 standard issues
and the other 2 are commemoratives.
<br><br>
The standard issue coins are: Greece 2003 and Italy 2016.
<br><br>
The commemorative issue coins are: “Constitution” and
“Domenikos Theotokopoulos”, both from Greece.
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</section>
<section id=25-07-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
<div>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<p>
Small update for a small coin. Today my brother gifted
me a Belgian 2c coin from 2016. I am not sure where he
found a 2c coin in the Netherlands, but it’s new for the
collection, and it’s mine now!
</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id=13-07-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
<div>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<p>
Today I recieved a fantastic swap from The_Figher on the
<a href=https://discord.com/invite/dM3rHy4ANk>
Euro Coins discord server</a>!
The swap got me a whole 17 new coins for my collection! Of the 17,
9 of them were standard issue coins and 8 were commemoratives!
<br /><br />
The new standard issue coins were: Germany 1c 2017 (F), Germany 2c
2020 (G), Germany 5c 2021 (F), Germany 5c 2022 (J), Germany 10c 2022
(F), Greece 10c 2018, Greece 1c 2014, Greece 1c 2017, and
<strong>Monaco €1 2002</strong>!
<br /><br />
The new commemorative coins were: Estonia <em>University of
Tartu</em> (2019), Estonia <em>Antarctica</em> (2020), Estonia
<em>Tartu Peace Treaty</em> (2020), Estonia <em>Finno-Urgic
Peoples</em> (2021), Estonia <em>Estonian Literati</em> (2022),
Germany <em>Karl der Große</em> (2023; D), Malta <em>Ta’ Ħaġrat
Temples</em> (2019), and Spain <em>Toledo</em> (2021)!
</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id=05-07-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
<div>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<p>
Today was mail day again, with 3 new commemorative coins from Malta!
Two of these coins come from Laganinu on the
<a href=https://discord.com/invite/dM3rHy4ANk>
Euro Coins discord server</a>.
Those two coins are “Mnajdra Temples” and “Ta’ Ħaġrat Temples”, the
latter containing the NIFC ‘F’ in the star! The third coin I
recieved from a different individual was the Maltese “Games”
commemorative.
</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id=01-07-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
<div>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<p>
Today I completed a 20 roll hunt of 10x 10c rolls and 10x 20c rolls.
The hunt got me 8 new 10c coins and 4 new 20c coins for a total of
12 new finds!
<br /><br />
The new 10c finds were: Belgium 2017, Germany 2004 (D), Germany 2012
(J; NIFC!), Germany 2017 (G), Germany 2021 (J), Italy 2004, Italy
2013, and Spain 2020. On top of the German 2012 coin being an NIFC,
I have a sneaking suspicion that it might be a proof coin too. I am
not entirely sure yet though, and if it is I need to figure out how
to actually display that information on the site (if I do at all).
<br /><br />
The new 20c finds were: Finland 1999, Germany 2013 (G), Germany 2022
(G), and Ireland 2009.
<br /><br />
Also big news! The Portuguese translation of the site redesign has
been completed, and so I have officially updated euro.thomasvoss.com
to the new design! It was previously hosted on
new-euro.thomasvoss.com as a trial, but it is now the main site.
</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id=24-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
<div>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<p>
It’s mail day again today, and today’s mail was from Mörtel from the
<a href=https://discord.com/invite/dM3rHy4ANk>
Euro Coins discord server</a>.
The swap got me 8 new coins for my collection! For the standard
issue coins I got Luxembourg €2 2019, a coin with a mintage of only
50,000! On the commemorative side I got Cyprus “EU Flag”, Greece
“Euro Cash”, and 5 new German mintmarks in the form of “Hamburg”
(2023) mintmarks A and F, “Karl der Große” mintmarks F and G, and
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern mintmark D. I actually already had that last
coin, but what makes this one special is that it’s a circulated
proof coin! The fact it’s a proof <em>does</em> make it new for me!
</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id=22-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
<div>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<p>
Today I got a letter in the mail from Münzenjäger and I also met up
with Austrian Euro Coin Hunter in Eindhoven! Between the two of
them I got 2 new banknotes and a bunch of new standard- and
commemorative-coins.
<br /><br />
The two new banknotes I got were a €50 and a €100 banknote. Both
are from Austria, from the “Europa” series, and bear the signature
of Mario Draghi.
<br /><br />
The four new commemorative coins I got were: Malta 2013
“Self-Government”, Greece 2018 “Dodecanese Union”, Greece 2019
“Andreas Kalvos”, and Greece 2020 “Thrace Union”.
<br /><br />
The many standard issue coins I got were: Austria 10c (2009), Cyprus
10c (2020), Finland 5c (2019), Germany 20c (2003 D, 2010 G, 2019 J,
2022 F), Greece 1c (2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2016), Greece 2c
(2004, 2007–2009, 2014–2021), Greece 5c (2006, 2016–2018), Greece
10c (2016, 2019), Greece 50c (2007, 2011, 2019), Ireland 50c (2010),
Italy 20c (2016), Italy 50c (2014), Italy €1 (2013–2015, 2017, 2018,
2020), Netherlands €1 (2003), Portugal 5c (2016, 2021), Portugal 10c
(2021), Slovenia 5c (2021), and Slovenia 50c (2021).
</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id=20-06-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
<div>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<p>
Today I did another €2 coin hunt and got some pretty nice finds! My
standard issue finds were Finland 2005 and Italy 2008. I also got
two new commemorative finds in the form of Germany “Karl der Große”
2023 (J), and Luxembourg “Grand Duke Jean” 2021.
<br /><br />
Also it turns out that the Belgian Red Cross coin from 2014 is not
an NIFC as I previously thought, so that has been corrected.
</p>
</div>
</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
& 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 & 2008, France 2014,
Italy 2006, Monaco 2011, and Spain 2008 & 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 & 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 & 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>
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<div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<p>
I got an Italian 20c 2020 in my change today; a nice new find.
</p>
</div>
</section>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>
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<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 & 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>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<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>
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<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>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<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>
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<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>
<section id=25-04-2023 class="cl-section slant-down">
<div>
<h2><!-- DATE --></h2>
<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>
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<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
& 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 & 2013-A),
Germany 2c (2003-G, 2006-A, & 2006-D), Spain 1c (2002), Spain 2c
(2009 & 2015), and France 1c (2007, 2010, & 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>
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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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