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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 11:56 UTC

Tag: Van Overtveldt

  • Thursday, June 11th 2015 - 01:11 UTC

    Battle of coins re-edits the Battle of Waterloo 200 years later

    The €2.50 coin, a first in Belgium, with 70,000 of them minted, can only be spent in Belgium under an EU regulation which allows for irregular denominations

    Belgium finally has managed to circumvent French resistance to the introduction of Euro coins to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat in Waterloo (18th June 1815). It has done so by invoking a little-known European Union rule that allows countries to issue Euro coins of their choice, provided they are in an irregular denomination.