The Estonian Central Bank, Eesti Pank, has decided to commission 600,000 euro coin starter kits to familiarise the people of Estonia with the new currency prior to the changeover to the euro. The kit consists of 42 coins amounting to 12.79 euro. The starter kits will be sold for 200 kroons per kit.
The starter kits contain all the denominations of the Estonian euro coins to be launched. Thus, each kit includes seven 1 cent coins, six 2, 5, 10 and 20 cent coins, five 50 cent coins, four € 1 coins and two € 2 coins.
The sale of the starter kits starts on 1 December. Since every household should get a kit, one person can buy up to five kits at a time. The euro coin starter kits will be sold at bank offices. If possible, the network of the sales channels will be expanded and notice thereof will be given before December.
The coins in starter kits will become valid as from 1 January 2011, when euro becomes legal tender in Estonia. Prior to that date, the Estonian euro coins are not valid as a means of payment in any country.
The coins will be produced by the Mint of Finland. The production of the starter kith is co-funded by the European Commission.
Estonia's new euro coins are displayed at the Eesti Pank Museum (Estonia pst 13, Tallinn). The museum is open from 12-17 from Wednesday to Friday and from 11-16 on Saturdays. Entrance to the museum is free of charge.
Eesti Pank is commissioning euro coin starter kits to familiarise people with the new currency (27)
Eestlased Eestis | 03 Aug 2010 | EWR
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Toomas, if you are so completely convinced that the overwhelming majority of Estonians support the Euro, can you please explain how in your mind 52% support has suddenly become the incredibly high percentage that we all expected, and is not the sobering reality that just under half of the Estonian population is AGAINST the Euro? I would like to hear a reasonable response, but I suspect I will get the usual sarcastic response that has become the preferred "visiitkaart" to use when you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
In this case Peter, I beg to differ with you. Unfortunately too many Estonian politicians are astute enough to know which flag to fly when, and frankly it is a grave mistake to imagine that the kind of Patriotism practiced in Toronto in any way, shape of form resembles the kind that is expressed on a daily basis in Estonia. This is simply not the case! You are being very generous in your assertions regarding political motives, but there is still too much corruption here in Estonia that scars and hinders political transparency rising above the daily criminal element that functions in every field of Estonian life. Just follow the daily news with regard to objectivity in the 6-month leadup to currency change over and it is more than clear that things are happening here that do not happen (let alone are supposed to happen at all) in a free and democratic nation. Dog eat dog mentality rules as ruthlessly as ever in this neck of the woods, Peter.
While I totally agree that there are many individuals who are liberals, communists, freemasons and others who are dedicated to destroying our civilization, most of the Estonians who support the EU and want Estonia to become a province again do so not because they are evil but because they have an ingrained slave mentality that comes from 700 years of occupation.
Few of these people believed that Estonia could ever be free and as soon as independence was achieved, they could not handle this freedom and started conspiring to make Estonia a province of the EU. They do not understand the importance of the kroon and would rather see the euro being used so they can go back to being obedient slaves and serve their foreign masters.
Few of these people believed that Estonia could ever be free and as soon as independence was achieved, they could not handle this freedom and started conspiring to make Estonia a province of the EU. They do not understand the importance of the kroon and would rather see the euro being used so they can go back to being obedient slaves and serve their foreign masters.
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