Yeah that’s the famous “portrait of a man with a giant euro symbol for a hand” coin.
It was a competition win for 10 years of the euro
There’s a lot of designs, I know a fella who would collect different 2 euro coins. Some are worth a bit cause there would be a few made and such
That was a competition, a student from the Royal College of Surgeons designed it
All the notes have fictional bridges on them so no country felt left out not having been represented.
Then a town in the netherlands built them… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9E1wsxOSzM
Classy, recognisable, and just the right “tone” I thought.
It’s not specifically Irish
>It seeks to convey the idea of the single currency and, by extension, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) being the latest step in Europe’s long history of trade and economic integration. The coin is issued by each euro area country and shows the name of the country as well as the legend ‘EMU 1999-2009’ in the respective language(s). The design was chosen out of a shortlist of five by members of the public across the European Union voting online. It was created by George Stamatopoulos, a sculptor from the Minting department at the Bank of Greece.
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>Issue Date: January 2009
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Yeah that’s the famous “portrait of a man with a giant euro symbol for a hand” coin.
It was a competition win for 10 years of the euro
There’s a lot of designs, I know a fella who would collect different 2 euro coins. Some are worth a bit cause there would be a few made and such
That was a competition, a student from the Royal College of Surgeons designed it
All the notes have fictional bridges on them so no country felt left out not having been represented.
Then a town in the netherlands built them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9E1wsxOSzM
The Easter Rising coin design was genuinely great imho –
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces80921.html
Classy, recognisable, and just the right “tone” I thought.
It’s not specifically Irish
>It seeks to convey the idea of the single currency and, by extension, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) being the latest step in Europe’s long history of trade and economic integration. The coin is issued by each euro area country and shows the name of the country as well as the legend ‘EMU 1999-2009’ in the respective language(s). The design was chosen out of a shortlist of five by members of the public across the European Union voting online. It was created by George Stamatopoulos, a sculptor from the Minting department at the Bank of Greece.
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>Issue Date: January 2009
[Examples](https://www.theolivepress.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Spanish-coin-selling-for-1000.jpg?width=1200&enable=upscale) [from](https://www.fleur-de-coin.com/images/eurocoins/euroimages/malta2euros2009.jpg) [other](https://preview.redd.it/j0ee06cbjvd11.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=fc3c9bc6a24a493ceb9d1b42f083be2a88a16a2b) [countries](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/l08AAOSw2d1h6DfL/s-l400.jpg)
One of them sold for €1,000 euros a few years ago.
The design pretty much sums up the ECB’s view of Ireland’s economic situation in 2009
I have some of the prototype coins. Are they worth anything?
Looks like something drawn by a 3 year old.
Na that’s a fake, loads going around at the moment
Have you been hiding under a rock 😳 I thought everyone knew about these