Commemorative coins

The coin commemorates the Porvoo Diet of 1809, which gave birth to the Grand Duchy of Finland and was the beginning of the autonomous government. The coin depicts the cathedral of Porvoo, where the opening ceremony took place in connection with a religious festivity.

The inner part of the piece represents the logo of the Ghent University, with the dates 1817 - 2017 below, surrounded by the inscription 200 JAAR UNIVERSITEIT GENT – 200 YEARS GHENT UNIVERSITY and the country indication BE. The mintmark of Brussels, a helmeted head of the Archangel Michael and the..

The inner part of the piece represents the logo of the University of Liege, with the dates 1817 - 2017 below, surrounded by the inscription 200 ANS UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE – 200 YEARS UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE and the country indication BE. The mintmark of Brussels, a helmeted head of the Archangel Michael...

The inner part of the coin depicts a hand holding a globe of the Earth with a plant in the foreground. The inscription ‘2015 EUROPEAN YEAR FOR DEVELOPMENT’ features in an arc above the globe. The country code ‘BE’ appears beneath the hand while the signature mark of the Master of the Mint and the...

Held every four years since 1960, the UEFA men’s football European Championship, commonly referred to as ‘the Euro’, will take place in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016. Euro 2016, the fifteenth edition of the European Football Championship, is organised by the Union of European Football...

The upper right half of the national side design depicts a representation of the concept of digital humanism: printed circuits in the shape of a human brain, in the centre of which is a circle representing a microprocessor. The Slovak coat of arms is placed next to the lower right edge. Inscribed...

This coin commemorates the 20th anniversary of the peaceful student demonstration which took place in Prague on 17 November 1989 and was severely repressed by police. Demonstrations spread to other cities and heralded the end of the soviet era two years later.

This coin shows a representation of the Cathedral of Cologne with a comet passing overhead. The 20th World Youth Day was held in Cologne in August 2005, and marked the first apostolic journey of Pope Benedict XVI.

Theatre masks representing two characters of the New Comedy, the young woman and the slave, from a mosaic of the II century A.D. (Rome, Capitoline Museums); around construction plan of a Roman theatre and the logo of the Italian Republic “RI”; on the left side “R” and on the right side “LDS”...