Andorran diner
Diner is a currency of the Principality of Andorra for coins that are issued by the Principality itself. Since the country uses the euro but did not issue its own Andorran euro coins until 2015 , the diner pseudo coins were issued as investment and collector coins, but not used in trade. A dinner is divided into 100 cèntims. The words "els diners" mean "money" in Catalan .
The minting of diners was started in 1977 or 1983 by the Bishop of Urgell in his function as co-prince of Andorra and officially issued by the Servei d'Emissions (mint of the episcopal co-prince). Previously given dinners came from private individuals. From 1998 the Consell General de les Valls also issued diner coins. The French President as co-prince did not have any diners coined.
A dinner was equivalent to 100 pesetas (1983–1985), then 125 pesetas.
Andorra Eagle
The Andorra Eagle is a silver or gold coin that has been issued since 2008 and 2009, respectively. Face values are 1, 30, 100 and 200 Diners (silver) and 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 Diners (gold).
Coin bars
Since September 2011 an edition of diner coin bars made of silver, similar to the Cook Islands coin bar, has been available. There are weights of 250 g, 500 g, 1 kg, 5 kg and 15 kg (450 Diners), which are manufactured by the Belgian company Umicore for Andorra. In contrast to conventional silver bars , they were available in Germany at the VAT rate for coins, which was reduced to seven percent , until the conversion of VAT at the end of 2014 , as they are legal tender.
Individual evidence
- ↑ George S. Cuhaj, Thomas Michael: 2012 Standard Catalog of World Coins 2001 to Date. Krause Pub., Iola WI 2011, ISBN 978-1-4402-1575-9 . (on-line)
- ↑ Information on the start of coin production (French and English)
- ↑ Colin R. Bruce: 2008 Standard Catalog of World Coins 1901-2000. Krause Pub., Iola WI 2007, ISBN 978-0-89689-500-3 . (on-line)
- ↑ Silver Diner coin bars on goldreporter.de
- ↑ Information on Umicore coin bars (pdf; 39 kB)