New two euro coins?

Mac daddy

Just spotted this in my wallet has anyone else come across this one before?



inscription says : AEA 1999-2009 EMU

Looks like some kid made the drawing on it.

samhail

http://www.oenb.at/en/rund_ums_geld/euro/muenzen/umlaufgedenkmuenzen/2009/commemorative_coins_issued_in_2009.jsp

looks nice.
Issuing date: January 2009

emeraldstar

Mac daddy wrote: »

Just spotted this in my wallet has anyone else come across this one before?

Yup. Two weeks ago in AH.

Hagar

Spot the French one Link.

Insect Overlord

Hagar wrote: »

Spot the French one Link.

ROFL

Cheese eating surrender monkeys.

KeyLimePie

They were issued to commerate the 10 year anniversary of the euro, and are meant to be collectable so if you get one again hold onto it =p

PirateShampoo

Do u guys remember the limited addition 50 pence peice that they brought out years ago?

samhail

1988 more than "years ago" i think i still have one or two of those floating around.

EKRIUQ

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Do u guys remember the limited addition 50 pence peice that they brought out years ago?

I know a fella that collected 1,000 of them which was good considering they only minted 50,000

http://www.irishcoinage.com/K00002.HTM

sillyputty

I got one of these about 3 weeks ago and i kept it for my god daughter i mean imagine in 10 years time it will be worth.... €2 - i'm such a good godmother

PirateShampoo

EKRIUQ wrote: »

I know a fella that collected 1,000 of them which was good considering they only minted 50,000

http://www.irishcoinage.com/K00002.HTM

A friends dad used to collect them also, we used to sell them to him for a punt.

fourfiveone

PirateShampoo wrote: »

A friends dad used to collect them also, we used to sell them to him for a punt.

Did you like friends dadsticks?

PirateShampoo

fourfiveone wrote: »

Did you like friends dadsticks?

Zing?

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PirateShampoo wrote: »

Do u guys remember the limited addition 50 pence peice that they brought out years ago?

I have a good few of them at home, also have the milenium pound coin, special edition. Also have a £20 sterling coin Have lots of other coinns, forget what I have to be honest :P

Tar.Aldarion

EKRIUQ wrote: »

I know a fella that collected 1,000 of them which was good considering they only minted 50,000

http://www.irishcoinage.com/K00002.HTM

I had loads of tehm as well

Leprachaun

fourfiveone wrote: »

Did you like friends dadsticks?

That really only works with fishsticks since there's no such thing as 'dadsticks'.

fourfiveone

No such thing as fish dicks either. Just put it here because of 1st reply this thread. http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055542592 . OK so that thread wasn't interesting and my contibution here may not work but I'd sooner write something original than just spout lines from South Park.

PirateShampoo

fourfiveone wrote: »

No such thing as fish dicks either. Just put it here because of 1st reply this thread. http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055542592 . OK so that thread wasn't interesting and my contibution here may not work but I'd sooner write something original than just spout lines from South Park.

Do you want the Bitty?

Économiste Monétaire

sillyputty wrote: »

I got one of these about 3 weeks ago and i kept it for my god daughter i mean imagine in 10 years time it will be worth.... €2 - i'm such a good godmother

It will probably be worth ~€1.61 in current purchasing power.

Tech3

Économiste Monétaire wrote: »

It will probably be worth ~€1.61 in current purchasing power.

Explain? I would imagine you would get a lot more with 2 euro now than say maybe a few months ago when inflation was an all time high?

Mr.Lizard

EKRIUQ wrote: »

I know a fella that collected 1,000 of them

I was talking to the fella. I made him an off of €1900 for his collection but he wasn't interested.

Fozzy

Mr.Lizard wrote: »

I was talking to the fella. I made him an off of 1900 for his collection but he wasn't interested.

For something that was worth £500?

Économiste Monétaire

tech2 wrote: »

Explain? I would imagine you would get a lot more with 2 euro now than say maybe a few months ago when inflation was an all time high?

Much of the technical "deflation" numbers from price indices are attributable to reductions in interest rates; that's why you'll observe significant discrepancy between the CSO Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP). The largest contribution to negative HICP figures are fuel prices which have stabilised relative to the free-fall in commodity prices over the latter half of '08. Take the average Eurozone y-on-y inflation rate since introduction as a broad approximation to what you money will be worth (its purchasing power) in the long-run.

Governments are determined to get the banking system back to a state whereby monetary inflation will return (the cost of expanding the money supply). Pump enough money into an economy and when the velocity of that money (the average number of times it is used in a transaction) returns to a point of > 0 then you'll see inflation. The approximation I gave was based on an average inflation rate at 2.21%. Err on the side of an up-swing .

Here's what annual (Irish) HICP looks like:
COICOP Group|Monthly Change (%)|Annual Change (%)|Group Contribution to Annual Change
01 Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages|- 0.5|- 0.6|- 0.08
02 Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco|0|+ 5.9 |+ 0.40
03 Clothing and Footwear|+ 4.6|- 8.7|- 0.47
04 Housing, Water, Electricity, Gas and Other Fuels|- 0.7|- 3.9|- 0.41
05 Furnishings, Household Equipment and Routine Household Maintenance|+ 0.3|- 2.0|- 0.09
06 Health|- 0.1|+ 4.6|+ 0.17
07 Transport| + 0.5|- 7.4| - 1.06
08 Communications|0|+ 0.9|+ 0.03
09 Recreation and Culture| - 0.3|- 0.2| - 0.03
10 Education|0|+ 5.4 |+ 0.13
11 Restaurants and Hotels|- 0.3|+ 1.5| + 0.25
12 Miscellaneous Goods and Services|+ 0.4|+ 6.3| + 0.43
HICP TOTAL|+ 0.1|- 0.7|- 0.7