Euro starter kits

The starter kit, according to EUR - state with its own or without printed name, is a Purse, which was available in the banks of this time twelve euro countries before the introduction of the euro on 1 January 2002. It had the benefit of making the population in Europe with the euro and the introduction - especially of coinage - to facilitate. The countries that adopted the euro after 2002, gave out starter. The last starter was published on 10 December 2013 the Latvian starter since Latvia became a member of the euro zone countries on 1 January 2014.

In Germany a starter kit containing 20 coins worth 10.23 euros and had the equivalent of 20 DM The calculated difference of one penny went there at the expense of the public purse. In Germany, the starter could be obtained in all savings banks and banks from 17 December 2001.

The coin issued by the Austrian Austria starter pack containing 33 coins with a total value of EUR 14.54 or 200.07 shillings. Citizens paid for such a starter kit 200 shillings, the state was thus seven pence for a copy of it.

Also, the number and combination of coins varied from country to country. So it was in the Finnish starter kit only every eight coins worth of 3.88 € in Italian but 53 coins worth € 12.91 ( 25,000 Italian lire).

The Netherlands gave every citizen aged six and a Ministarterkit worth of 3.88 € and also offered another, regular starter in the value of 25 Dutch guilders.

Collector's item

Starter kits are still very popular with collectors, especially if they are intact, Opened kits, however, only have the real coin. So it happened that often bear a significantly higher than the issue price can be achieved on the sale of starter kits.

The edition of the German starter was 53.54 million copies. Because of this high circulation could produce no high increases in value as opposed to the starter kits of other countries, the German starter kit. Other countries such as Monaco, Ireland and Finland rose because of their short runs (up to less than one million copies ) in part considerably in value. Thus, the collector's value of the Finnish starter is now over 150 euros, but this caused, also led by these high profit margin that fake starter kits were put into circulation.