Brilliant design for this new coin - must have been designed in Greece.
The EU is to introduce a new 10 Euro coin marking the 10th Anniversary of the introduction of the Euro to the world financial markets.
You will not be surprised to learn that it has been officially announced by the Productivity Commission that each coin will cost 12 Euros to produce. The favoured design, as selected by the committee of MEPs concerned, subject to formal ratification by the unelected commission, is as below