France was reassured that the new coin will only be used in Belgium, but that did not stop French media calling the spat "a new Waterloo." Related: Napoleon's hat sells for $2.4 million ...

France will issue a new 1,000-euro gold coin this summer. Reservations for the limited-edition coin opened on Friday, with hundreds of collectors queuing outside the Mint in Paris.

But a warm welcome for the euro coins, which are due to hit streets in countries such as France, Germany and Italy on 1 January, took longer to find on a BBC survey of Londoners' views. "It looks just ...

PARIS — France has destroyed and reminted 27 million coins after failing to ask the EU for design approval and then being told they didn't conform. The Monnaie de Paris, the country's mint, produced ...

France has won the Battle of Waterloo … or more precisely the battle over whether Belgium can issue a two-euro coin celebrating the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo.

A new design for a €2 coin featuring a map of a European battle is proving divisive in Brussels. The design shows an image of the Lion Hill memorial at Waterloo, near Brussels. It was submitted ...

The resulting iconography of the euro banknote and the common side of the euro coin, Dr. Oriane Calligaro notes in her monograph Negotiating Europe.The EU promotion of Europeanness since the 1950s ...