Another commemorative euro coin.

Undeterred by the eurozone’s debt crisis and the near meltdown of Greece, the European Commission has announced plans to issue a commemorative euro coin to mark ten years of euro banknotes and coins, which were launched on 1 January 2002.

The special €2 coin, to be issued from January, is supposed to symbolise how the euro has, the Commission says, become “a true global player”. The coin illustrates four aspects of the euro’s importance: it features people, to symbolise the currency’s contribution to everyday life, a factory, representing industry, wind power stations to represent energy, and a ship (not sinking), to represent trade.

There is an almost unseemly haste to issue commemorative euro coins: this is the third since 2002 (following a 2007 minting to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, and another in 2009 for a decade of economic and monetary union). Could it be inspired by a determination to make as many as possible while the currency lasts?

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