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CC 28 2007
2 euro coin
BU Main coin Bank issue
2 Euro BU
Greece · 50 years of the Treaties of Rome
Mintage3,973,549
Issue date25 Mar 2007
Edge letteringΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ + ★
Market price€8.90
Issue occasion
The commemorative coin marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome (Vertrag von Rom) by the six founding members. The design shows the treaty document in front of the star-shaped paving of Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, designed by Michelangelo, where the treaty was signed on 25 March 1957. Above it is “Europe” in the respective national language; the outer ring bears the twelve stars of the European Union.
The design
The coin features at its centre the treaty document signed by the six founding members, set against the star-shaped paving of the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, designed by Michelangelo, where the treaty was signed on 25 March 1957. Directly above the treaty document, the word “Europe” is inscribed in the respective language. The occasion for the issue appears above the overall design, and the issuing country below it, in the respective language version(s), together with the year 2007. The outer ring of the coin bears the twelve stars of the European Union.
Background on the topic
The “Treaties of Rome” (Römischen Verträgen) refer to two agreements: the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community (Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft, EWG) and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (Europäische Atomgemeinschaft, Euratom). The contracting parties were Belgium, the Bundesrepublik Deutschland, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Both treaties entered into force in 1958.
The six states had already begun jointly managing key economic sectors through the European Coal and Steel Community. After the failure of the planned European Defence Community, cooperation shifted towards economic matters. At the Messina Conference in 1955, the foreign ministers agreed on further steps towards integration. A committee headed by the Belgian politician Paul-Henri Spaak then prepared the foundations for the later treaties.
The European Economic Community was intended to create a common market. This included the gradual removal of customs duties between the member states, a common external tariff, and common rules for competition, trade, agriculture and transport. In the long term, goods, persons, services and capital were to be able to move more freely within the Community. The European Economic Community had common institutions, from which the present-day institutions of the European Union emerged through several stages of development.
Euratom pursued a narrower objective. The Community was to coordinate the peaceful use of nuclear energy, promote research, monitor the supply of nuclear materials and support common safety standards. Euratom legally continues to exist alongside the European Union.
The European Economic Community later became the European Community. The Maastricht Treaty created the European Union and at the same time initiated the Economic and Monetary Union, from which the euro emerged. The anniversary therefore presented an opportunity for a joint issue by the euro-area countries: it commemorated a treaty-based starting point of the political and economic cooperation within which the common currency was introduced decades later. The issue was also the first 2-euro commemorative coin to be issued by all the euro-area countries at that time with a common basic design.
The six states had already begun jointly managing key economic sectors through the European Coal and Steel Community. After the failure of the planned European Defence Community, cooperation shifted towards economic matters. At the Messina Conference in 1955, the foreign ministers agreed on further steps towards integration. A committee headed by the Belgian politician Paul-Henri Spaak then prepared the foundations for the later treaties.
The European Economic Community was intended to create a common market. This included the gradual removal of customs duties between the member states, a common external tariff, and common rules for competition, trade, agriculture and transport. In the long term, goods, persons, services and capital were to be able to move more freely within the Community. The European Economic Community had common institutions, from which the present-day institutions of the European Union emerged through several stages of development.
Euratom pursued a narrower objective. The Community was to coordinate the peaceful use of nuclear energy, promote research, monitor the supply of nuclear materials and support common safety standards. Euratom legally continues to exist alongside the European Union.
The European Economic Community later became the European Community. The Maastricht Treaty created the European Union and at the same time initiated the Economic and Monetary Union, from which the euro emerged. The anniversary therefore presented an opportunity for a joint issue by the euro-area countries: it commemorated a treaty-based starting point of the political and economic cooperation within which the common currency was introduced decades later. The issue was also the first 2-euro commemorative coin to be issued by all the euro-area countries at that time with a common basic design.
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