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Slovenians queue for commemorative euro coins26 March 2007
People were standing in line in front of the Slovenian central bank on Monday morning to get their hands on the limited-issue commemorative euro coins marking the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. The two-euro coin was issued in all 13 eurozone states, including Slovenia, which adopted the single currency on 1 January this year. It is the first euro coin commemorating the same event to be issued throughout the eurozone. The coin has a common design on both sides (regular euro coins carry different motives on the national side); an open book on the paving of the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, where the treaty was signed on 25 March 1957. However, the words "Treaty of Rome - 50 years" at the top, "Europe" in the centre and the name of the issuing country at the bottom are written in the languages of the eurozone members. The coins can be bought at commercial banks and Slovenia's central bank Banka Slovenije. Banka Slovenije ran out of coins already in the morning, even though it limited the number of coins that one person can buy to five, the bank said. Slovenia issued only 400,000 commemorative coins, while 90 million were issued throughout Europe. Source: Slovenian press agency
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