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I see the outline of the old coin on the new coin but the owl has significant differences like it was redrawn from scratch

Like a Dwarf Fortress artifact.

No, they used the gyro.

Give a hoot Greece!

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Yeah, but Israel can go suck a dick.

Heartbreaking: worst country you know does kind of cool thing

I'm surprised it doesn't have a picture of a dead kid

What's that map?

I like them. Sort of artistic.

And they move around Europe, it's always cool to check your change and find a bunch of national coins in it

US did this with state quarters in late 90s. These customized euros arrived early 2000s. Perhaps inspired? I'm not sure.

This is beautiful. Thank you. Please accept my up-vote.

Tbf, last I checked, Greece was still suffering under the draconian austerity policies that the IMF and Germany attached to the bailout a few years ago.

It wouldn't surprise me that much if "paying artists" has become categorically illegal for the Greek government to do.

Child labor laws were a little different then. It may have indeed been made by a drunk toddler.

It was surely made rounder, but gotten less so through it's lifetime of use and just age.

Aliens?

No, coinage.

Well, the good news is that they made a lot of coinage. Random bronze or silver coins, especially if they're not in the best of condition and with dubious provenance, are kind of cheap. The museum-grade stuff, that collectors really want to have, is quite fiercely bid over when it comes to market. And they never made a lot of gold coins - the value was impractical compared to the cost of goods and labour - so that shit's expensive, yo. But if you're wanting a few denarius to call your own, then ebay's full of them.

The more modern belief though is that the city was named first, and Athena rose up as their mascot, since her name doesn't really fit with typical naming conventions of the time, but moreso with the way places were named.

Could be why she was also named Pallas Athena sometimes.

I remember when Lira used to make these bimetal coin in a coin things. I remember someone telling me back in my youth that bimetal coins were made of oils coins so they could cut costs but make a coin that worked in vending machines without having to resize the internal change sorters. I never believed it and never looked it up.

Each country makes coins and Bills and releases them in their countries. But they're valid in the whole eurozone.

The front side of the coin looks the same, only the back is different for each country. There are also commemorative 2€ coins celebrating events or other things.

The bills look all the same you can only tell the issuing country by the first letter of the serial number.

They each have many, as they regularly release new ones. And they soon percolate to the rest of Europe.

It's always fun trying to figure out where a coin came from.

Yes, even Monaco or the Vatican get their own euro coin.

It's the owl of Athena, so even if not directly, it's from the same source.