No euro coin designs yet

To date no official designs for euro coins for Malta have been commissioned, the Central Bank said yesterday. It was referring to adverts carried in specialised German magazines that claim to be selling "trial versions of Malta's euro coins". The...

To date no official designs for euro coins for Malta have been commissioned, the Central Bank said yesterday.

It was referring to adverts carried in specialised German magazines that claim to be selling "trial versions of Malta's euro coins".

The adverts have been circulating since July 2003 and promote products that have been termed "fantasy euro patterns".

These patterns are unlike any of the legal tender Maltese coins in circulation or of the current euro area coins and are easily distinguishable as not being legal tender, the bank said.

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