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I picked up another 20 rolls of pennies today and in my sorting I found a penny sized 2 eurocent. It had the color of a penny and on my pencil scale it weighed like a copper Lincoln. I did a quick search for it and wikipedia shows that there are 24 variation of the 2 eurocent. I happened to have found the Greek version of this coin. While contemplating what the composition of this coin must be I noticed that wikipedia says that this coin weighs in at 3.06 grams. That would be pretty nice if this was a copper coin, but as it turns out, it is a copper plated steel coin. Yep, my magnet picked it up nicely.

It was a neat find, but I can't say that I'll be in a hurry to jump the pond looking for more eurocents. However, if some of our eurofriends were to send me some, I'd gladly collect them.

(the forum crop the image you can go there to find the original : http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/3278/2centseuro.png)

Here a bunch of them i found here in Canada, always in machine rolled penny roll. I also found a few 5cents euro in nickels machine roll. The 5cents look exactly like the 2cents, nickels sized.

They are cute, but contain no metal value. I don't think they can have any numismatic value either. So, for me, it's fiat money that doesn't worth they're weight in shipping. I'm not selling nor buying but i will keep all i found in my copper mining hobby, i love to find foreign coins.

Nice collection. Interestingly, I found mine in a CWR.

I found a 2 eurocent piece in a bag of Lincolns's earlier in the year. It made a trip back to the bank disguised as a zincoln.

DF