• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    when EU went to the Euro, coins were secretly minted in Canada for a few EU countries and shipped out on secret cargo ships.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 hours ago

      Are you sure?

      I couldn’t find anything documented about that:

      Royal Canadian Mint of Winnipeg: 0 results

      Royal Canadian Mint of Ottawa: 0 results

      That site is usually fairly accurate. For example, Greek Euro coins in 2002 were minted both in Greece and In Spain/France/Finland (depending on the value) because Greece didn’t meete the criteria for a while and was accepted later than other countries, with less time to minr coins. The non-Greece minted coins have a small letter hidden in a star denoting the country they were minted in: E for Spain (España), F for France, S for Finland (Suomi). Take the 2 Euro coin for example: https://en.numista.com/120

      75,400,000 were minted in Greece, 70,000,000 in Finland.