The creation of a only coin was approved in 1992 for the necessity to make easy the commercial exchanges to avoid the change of the coin.

- Austria,1999- Belgium,1999- Cyprus and Malta, 2008- Estonia and Greece,

2011- Finland,1999- France,1999- Germany,1999- Ireland,1999- Italy, 1999- Luxembourg,1999- Netherlands, 1999- Portugal, 1999- Slovakia,2009 - Slovenia, 2007- Spain, 1999

States of the European Union adopting the euro:

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The coins are identical in all the European States but the coins have a different face in each the country.

1)The name derives from the word Europa and was adopted by the European Council of Madrid in 1995.

2) It was inspired by the Greek letter epsilon, the greek culture is the basis of the Italian history.