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Postby theeuro on 31 May 2009, 20:30

How many different mintmarks and mintmaster marks (privy marks or signature marks of masters of the mints) have been depicted on Euro circulation coins?
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Re: Euro Tivia (922)

Postby Miguel.mateo on 01 Jun 2009, 01:35

Hhhhmmmmm, maybe my favorite question, and it is funny that i have never count them. I want to clarify a couple of points:

- Greece 2002 internationally produced coins: there are at list one mint mark there never issued in other coins (letter S) does that count?
- Germany letter F and France letter F (seen at least in Maltese coins), do they count as one?
- Slovenia 2007: Mintmark / Producing Country identifier (Fi) ... does that count?

I am quite interested in this question since I collect new coins only when a change in design has been made, including a small change in the mintmark or their positions within the coins.

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Re: Euro Tivia (922)

Postby Rick the collector on 02 Jun 2009, 12:02

Until present, 29 mintmarks and 18 mintmaster marks have been used, according to the information on this site.
However, many of them were double use (Monégasque coins for instance have the same marks as France) and Lithuania was also in the list, which is not an EMU member yet.

In my opinion the correct answer is (so with correction of double use):
18 mintmarks
11 mintmaster marks.

As an answer to Miguel (again I'm not 100% sure): all three types of letters you mentioned (S on Greece, F on Malta, Fi on Slovenia) matter, since they have been incorporated in this Website's topic on mintmarks. However country identifiers on their own coins, such as BE on Belgian coins from 2008 and FI on Finnish coins from 2006 don't count, since they're country identifiers and not considered marks.

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Re: Euro Tivia (922)

Postby Miguel.mateo on 03 Jun 2009, 01:25

About "Fi" as country identifier, what about Slovenian coins then? The "Fi" there represents a mintmark, not a country ... did you count France F and German F as different mintmarks?

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Re: Euro Tivia (922)

Postby Rick the collector on 03 Jun 2009, 17:25

I did count the Fi on the Slovenian coins, since those are mintmarks, while on the Finnish coins it's a country identifier.

I counted the F twice (German and French) for in my opinion both represent something different and therefore i think they should be counted as 2 and not 1.

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