The set I described was free and is meant to introduce people to the euro. There are other sets, worth 25 guilders that can be bought for that price in order to start using the euro from Jan. 1 onwards.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonardo Boselli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: [USMA:16693] Re: euro > On 16 Dec 2001, at 14:36, kilopascal wrote: > What does the set consist of as far as the coins are concerend? Is it one of each coin? And are these samples a mixture of the various national backsides, or strictly the Netherlands national backside? Italian sets are made up of 53 Coins : 2 @ 2? 4 @ 1? 5 @ 50c? 5 @ 20c? 6 @ 10c? 10 @ 5 c? 10 @ 2 c? 11 @ 1c? All with italian face. the reason for the 11 coins of the lower denomination is to have a quite round amont in ITL (24997) . Leonardo Boselli http://freedom.dicea.unifi.it/~leo/toscana
