Digging out my coin collection

I did not check my Euro collection before leaving for Europe. So when I was there, I just saved some coins that looked like I had never seen before. As a result, I came back with:

1. An Italian coin that I thought I didn't have, but did.

2. An Austrian coin that I thought I had never seen before, but in fact I already had the same design at 1-cent and 5-cent denominations. But this inadvertently completed my collection for that country because the one I found was 2 cents. :)

Austrian coins are the one in the column "A" (if you don't recognize the flag - I don't)
The new coin is the one sticking out a bit.

3. A German 2-cent coin that I didn't know was German, but it turned out I had the design only for 1-cent, so it turned out well.

Germany is the column with "D", for Deutschland

4. I kept a German 20-cent coin just because it looked so shiny and new, even though I knew I already had the design. Turned out I only had the 10-cent denomination (though this one, I definitely had seen loads of it when I was in France…I just wasn’t collecting all denominations at the time, because my friend only gave me the collector’s book at the end of my stay there). Then I realized I had put the old coin (the 10-cent coin above it) upside down. I didn't know Brandenburger Tor at the time… Now I totally know which side is up! :P

The shiny 20-cent coin is in the middle...the coin above it is upside down. And below it...there is no coin, just the image waiting to be filled :P

And when looking at the leftover coins that I didn't bother specially saving, I found that Belgium had changed their coin slightly. Hmmm... Why did you do that? Want to make things more difficult for collectors? :P

Spot the difference!

I also found that I had a German 1-euro coin that was shinier than the one in my book…so I guess I can swap that out.

And while going through all these, I found that I have a commemorative coin from Queen Elizabeth's 80th birthday in 2006 (my trip to UK was in 2007; I had forgotten when, but I looked it up :P )

This trip also gave me a commemorative 2-euro coin from Berlin, and a Latvian coin (Latvia joined the Euro club  in 2014, after I left France), so I am happy about those.

And also some Danish coins... I didn't get any from Poland or Sweden because those were only day trips and I didn't exchange any cash; we only used cards!