What's your wish list for new national circulation sets?

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Portugal.  Time for a change?


So far I have not mentioned any eurozone sets.

According to eurozone rules:

Changes to the designs used for the national sides of regular coins may only be made once every 15 years, without prejudice to changes necessary to prevent counterfeiting of the currency. Without prejudice of the previous, changes to the designs used for the national sides of regular coins may be made where the Head of State referred to on a coin changes. However, a temporary vacancy or the provisional occupation of the function of Head of State shall not give any additional right to such change.


Several countries of the eurozone would be allowed to change their national side designs if they so wished. The eurozone is quite old now.

The Portuguese designs are the ones that I find least attractive. Why are they so backward-looking? The designs show the first three seals of Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal. But it's the 21st century now. Portugal surely deserves better.

Has any member visited Portugal? If so, which themes would you suggest for an attractive new series?

I imagine that being part of the eurozone could exert some inertia on national coin design and make member countries more hesitant about changing their designs. Some member countries have amended small details of their national sides, but 22 years is a long time to go without changing their circulation coin designs for those that have not.
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Jostein

It's time for Tunisia to turn its monetary cone around. Most of the current coin designs date back to the 1960s and many are too large for the small value it has. Maybe it's time to convert mils into cents and minting coins of 5, 2, 1 and half dinar, as well 20, 10 and 5 cents (200, 100 and 50 mils)...

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Quote from: Jostein on July 30, 2024, 09:28:15 AMIt's time for Tunisia to turn its monetary cone around. Most of the current coin designs date back to the 1960s and many are too large for the small value it has. Maybe it's time to convert mils into cents and minting coins of 5, 2, 1 and half dinar, as well 20, 10 and 5 cents (200, 100 and 50 mils).

Excellent idea. I had never heard of the phrase "monetary cone", though. Interesting.
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COINAGE OF TUNISIA








Here you see the coins of Tunisia.


I believe that the 5 millimes coin is the lowest denomination in use.

It features a cork tree on its obverse.


The designs look desperately old-fashioned nowadays.

The 2 dinars design of 2013 is quite attractive, though.

I imagined it would presage a redesign of the coinage - wrong!


See:  Coinage of Tunisia since independence.
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Jostein

Quote from: <k> on July 30, 2024, 12:06:09 PMExcellent idea. I had never heard of the phrase "monetary cone", though. Interesting.


Hahaha. It's a Spanishism. In Spanish, to refer to the sets of coins that circulate at the same time in a country, we speak of "cono monetario".
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