La production ayant déjà commencé - les délais étaient, ne l'oublions pas, très serrés pour produire des milliards de pièces - tout ce qui avait été fabriqué avec cannelures fines fut détruit, difformé (ce qui explique les marques sur la pièce) et envoyé à la fonte. The SUP denomination corresponds to heavily deformed coins and the SPL denomination corresponds to the least deformed coins.Ĭe premier type prévu avec cannelures fines a été modifié in extremis lorsque la décision fut prise par Bruxelles de mettre des cannelures larges. A few handfuls of coins were recovered from the purchaser of the metal batch to be melted, and this is all that remains of the '10 cent France premier type'. As production had already begun - and deadlines were, let's not forget, very tight to produce billions of coins - everything that had been made with fine flutes was destroyed, deformed (which explains the marks on the coin) and sent to the smelter. This first type, planned with fine splines, was modified in extremis when Brussels decided to use wide splines.

Pierre Rodier, General coin engraver, Monnaie de Paris (1994-2000) Monnaie de Paris, Pessac, France (1973-date) Luycx is a computer engineer, and medallist living in Dendermonde, Belgium, and has worked for the Royal Belgian Mint for 15 years. Luc Luycx is the designer of the common side of the euro coins.

Rf 20 euro cent