Photo gallery

November 2001: packaging of euro banknotes at Valora, the banknote printing works in Portugal

November 2001: coin plasters at the Mint of Portugal in Lisbon

November 2001: packaging of euro coins at the Mint of Portugal in Lisbon

November 2001: out of circulation – Irish banknotes earmarked for destruction at the Central Bank of Ireland Currency Centre in Dublin

December 2001: Italian lire being marked for destruction at a Banca d’Italia branch near Rome

November 2001: training for the blind in Frankfurt. Special features have been incorporated into the banknotes to help blind and partially sighted people to recognise the new currency

November 2001: minting of euro coins at the Mint of Portugal in Lisbon

November 2001: refining of a striking die at the Mint of Portugal in Lisbon

July 2001: engraving of a euro coin with a reduction machine at the Austrian Mint in Vienna

January 2002: Luc Luycx of the Royal Belgian Mint, designer of the common side of the euro coins, at work in Brussels

January 2002, Brussels: a €2 coin and the plaster model on which it was based

February 2002: Robert Kalina, designer of the euro banknotes, at work at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank in Vienna