The 2 Euro coin to commemorate the 30-year-old Besteen the EU flag stands for many coins as year of mintage "unknown". e.g. Netherland, Austria ...
But it is known that the coin was minted in 2015 and is marked only in this year.
If I'm looking for in the search for coins of Austria in 2015. I can not find the coin. This is very bad.
Greating Bofried
The coins should be listed, if i search after coins from the year 2015.
I would prefer, to list the "flag-coins" with the minting year 2015 and not "No Date" and the bracketed year.
The year of mintage and issue is 2015. And 2015 is written on the obverse.
If nobody agrees to write the minting year 2015 clearly, the search engine should be given the ability to list the coins with bracketed years together with the not bracketed years "ND (2015)" and "2015" as results.
Is this possible?
I don't want to make pirouettes to to get a simple search result of all coins form one country which are minted/issued in the same year.
You should also keep in mind that there have already been two comparable issues that do not explicitly show the issuing year, just the celebrated period of time (e.g. 10 Years of Euro Cash: 2002-2012, and 10 Years of the European Monetary Union: 1999-2009).
These coins are NOT listed as ND(2012) or ND(2009), but in the way the should be so that they can easily be found using the Numista search engine.
There is a global issue with commemoratives in general as most concerned referees or team members consider the double-years 1985-2015 as part of the commemoration and not the minting year. I already told them, in the French side, that we should more consider it as inducted as there is no additional minting year. They denied it as they consider some coins to use both double-years and minting years, even the minting year is the same year as the commemoration year.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
It benefits nobody to describe these years as ND and bracketed years IF the year of issue is the same as the last year in the anniversary double date. The year is on the coin, even if it is a part of a double date, so the ND is absolutely not necessary and only causes trouble in the search engine.
I totally agree. And this is still not fixed! It shouldn't be that hard to fix. Isn't there someone of Numista who can adjust this? Or is it something we can do ourselves?
