# 492 - 2 Euro Commemoratives - Part 31

I love commemorative coins and, a few years ago, I discovered that the Euro Community was minting commemorative coins.

Each country has the right to mint up to two coins each year. They must be 2 euros, with the same face of a normal 2 euros coin and the same attributes and aspect.

The minting country uses the other side to show us what it is being commemorated.

They circulate exactly as the normal 2 euros coins.

The only exception to the rule of two coins each year is when they commemorate facts that affect the whole Europe. In this case the countries are allowed an extra coin.

They are Bi-Metallic Nickel-brass clad Nickel center in Copper-nickel ring, 8.5 g.

The first one was minted in Greece (2004) to commemorate the Athens Summer Olympic Games with a mintage of 50,000,000.

I will show all that I have, in no particular order.

The info about the coins was taken from Numista : https://en.numista.com/index.php

Today's first is a 2015 2 Euro from Italy, commemorating the 750th Anniversary of the Birth of Dante Alighieri. It shows Dante with an open book in left hand and the Purgatory mountain behind him: a particular from illustrations of "Divina Commedia" by Domenico di Michelino (1417-1491), realized inside "Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore", Florence.

The second is a 2015 2 Euro from Italy, commemorating the Expo Milano 2015. In the field a composition symbolizing the fertility of Earth: on a semicircle standing for the terrestrial globe, a seed fed by water and about to germinate; above the Earth, a vine shoot, an olive branch and a sheaf of wheat growing out of a tree trunk.

The third is a 2015 2 Euro from Malta, commemorating the Republic of Malta 1974. The coin is the last in a series of five commemorating Maltese constitutional milestones. Malta was declared a republic on 13 December 1974 following constitutional changes which were agreed upon by a great majority in Malta’s Parliament. The design reproduces a marble tablet affixed to the façade of the Presidential Palace in Valletta to mark Malta’s change from a monarchy to a republic.

I hope you have enjoyed our little walk around the euro commemoratives.

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