The coin itself was sold in a regular cardboard 2x2 coin holder. I removed the coin from the holder, because my euro coins album has different format.
The strange thing is that what I find in my Leuchtturm Euro Catalogue is that this coin was issued only in coin cards (325.000 coins) and as proof coins (15.000 coins). Numista has the same information.
Is my catalogue and the information on Numista wrong and there are circulating coins as well?
How is it possible to buy the coin without the coin card?
What do you think?
I've also seen dealers selling them without coincard. I suppose to get people who don't like to collect stuff from coincards to buy them anyway for their collection, as the price was the same ...
This price does seem kind of low though, as they were sold for €8 at the bank (wholesalers got them cheaper I've heard, but I doubt that cheap that a coin shop can sell them for €4 ...).
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
If I remember well the coin is also a part of the blister " rio" which contains the 8 belgian euro coins.
In which number these coins are counted I don't know.....
But for sure a lot of people do open the blisters and the coin cards.
I got one in the coincard and took it out and placed it in a 2x2 flip. I store all my 2 euro cc's that way. The packaging is just that .. packaging. I keep it but the main thing is the coin.
Mike
Master Referee - See my profile for what I collect.
