For while the front of every Euro coin is the same, each country puts a different design, and sometimes several different designs, on the back. Disappointingly, the Belgian coins are the least interesting, with a strait-laced and unflattering profile of the Belgian king. The Irish coins also played it safe, with the same old harp on the back. Most designs are more interesting. So far, my favourites are the Italian ten cent coin with Leonardo's perfect human, and the German Euro with a suitably terrifying Deutschland-uber-alles eagle. But there are so many coins I have yet to see. For the first time ever, it's actually a pleasure to be handed bunch of small change - you never know what might be in there. There could be an Austrian Mozart coin, or the legendary Vatican Euro, or the even more legendary Finnish one-cent piece!

Las monedas de un, dos y cinco céntimos destacan el lugar que ocupa Europa en el mundo, mientras que las monedas de 10, 20 y 50 céntimos presentan la Unión como un conjunto de países.
Las monedas de uno y dos euros reflejan una Europa sin fronteras
La cara nacional tendrá motivos diversos. En España, por ejemplo, las monedas de uno y dos euros llevan el retrato del Rey Juan Carlos I de Borbón; las de 10, 20 y 50 céntimos, el rostro de Miguel de Cervantes y las de un, dos y cinco céntimos, la fachada de la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela.



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Note added at 2002-12-05 21:05:51 (GMT)
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