Belgium > France

[ummbongo]

Euro coin row: France wins the battle, Belgium wins the war | Business | The Guardian

So, three months ago, Belgium proposed the introduction of a commemorative Waterloo €2 coin. But, because it represented the country’s most humiliating military defeat, France vetoed it.

Instead of giving up, Belgium went away and found an obscure law stating that any country in the eurozone could issue any new coins it wanted, providing they’re in an irregular denomination. So it invented a €2.5 coin, and minted 70,000 of those to commemorate Waterloo instead.

[HK_Katherine]

I was reading about this while I was in Amsterdam last week. Hilarious.

[justjoe86]

That is, quite francly, hilarious

[Claire ex-ax]

One of the comments:

Cheese-eating surrender-monkeys outdone by resolute chocolatiers.

[Claire ex-ax]

Next year, England so has to produce a commemorative coin for the 50th anniversary of its World Cup win (1966).

[shri]

GBP - 19.66? Or can they produce a Euro coin? (not sure)

[jgl]

One of the comments:

Cheese-eating surrender-monkeys outdone by resolute chocolatiers.

Ah, another Simpsons reference that has embedded itself into pop culture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese...render_monkeys

[Claire ex-ax]

GBP - 19.66? Or can they produce a Euro coin? (not sure)

To produce a euro coin, a country does have to be in the eurozone. If Britain doesn't do a commemorative non-euro coin (the Scottish might get all pissy and object ), then perhaps we can persuade the Belgians to help out with a euro one.