11.   The coins are being minted at a time of accelerating inflation.

12.   The coins are specially minted for the ceremony.

13.   The mammoth scale of the operation means they have to start early to get all the coins minted in time.

14.   The newspaper quoted a Central Bank official as saying the bank would soon mint new coins of high quality to replace those in circulation.

15.   While euro bills are uniform across the European Union, each country mints coins with its own national symbols, sovereigns or heroes.

16.   The rest, an undetermined amount, went to mint coins after the war.

17.   The coin was probably minted at the Karlsruhe mint, in southwestern Germany.