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YOU CAN NOW ‘celebrate’ the success of the Euro by buying your very own set of commemorative coins for €70.
But don’t stop reading in the rush to secure yours; they won’t be available until tomorrow.
The 10th anniversary of the Euro – fittingly denoted by tin and aluminium – marks the pretty uneventful decade since the introduction of the single currency.
An ad, which ran in many of today’s papers, states a limited production of just 5,000, which it’s hoped will “satisfy worldwide demand.”
According to the Central Bank of Ireland, the obverse of the €2 commemorative coin – or front, in non-coin related jargon – “symbolises the way in which the euro has become a true global player over the past ten years, as well as its importance in life,” presumably making reference to how a lack of them in people’s pockets is proving rather important.
The four symbols on the special coin have been deemed to represent the various aspects of modern life and in this regard, TheJournal.ie thinks they’ve done a pretty good job.
Trade is represented by a ship, which Ireland’s emigrants will be more than familiar with at this stage. Less unfortunate symbols represent ordinary people in the form of a family of four, industry by way of a factory and energy with wind powered stations.
For €70 all this and more can be yours. Now all we need is for a couple billion more coins to be minted and put in a large envelope addressed for Ireland, Europe.
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HA! funny
Did i just read it right..”success”
They must be having a laugh…
I wish i could say what i really think of the euro…2 words..
One for a coin collector with a sense of irony.
Didn’t realise it was April Fool’s Day,
Isn’t selling things that are worth €2, (such as a two euro coin for example) for €70 the kind of thing that caused the crisis to begin with?
Yeah, but now the middle class now has a chance at it!
All be it.. at the wrong end. :S
I know I am stating the obvious but ffs, ‘celebrate’ the Euro? Count me out.
Is that a JOKE!!!!!
Buying €3.88 for €70…. Hahaha. Good way to make money. Great disguised way to raise money to cover for deficits and all the feckin blunders and plunders
Hardly. They are only minting 5000 and at €70 a pop this will only raise 350,000€. Don’t this would go to far when it comes to deficits!
Need to be nutty to want those
YAWN
Celebrate the success of the euro? The ‘success’? The Euro is a piece of garbage that is tottering on a cliff.
I would love to celebrate the destruction of the euro.
How is the euro a success when every other country has to be bailed out n they have to cut everything in this country
A fitting eulogy.
Celebrating? Or commemorate the devastation it is leaving in in trail. And €10 a coin on top of that
Better do it quick before it collapses!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……… Success ? I don’t think so !
Having these coins will be like having the tickets from the Titanitc
This is how these idiots work it’s classic Orwellian double speak , success means failure , war for peace , Obama gets a Nobel peace price while ordering the slaughter of countless Iraqis and afghans .
Before u ask what obama has to Do with it I’m referring to the ruling class
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Success of the euro ha that’s the best one I ever heard and it’s €70 for one coin just another way of trying to pawn money off us
For a set of coins I men to say
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