Euro: Trivial coin facts

Belgian one euro coin	Coins are popularly used as a sort of two-sided die and a fair coin is defined to have the probability of heads (in the parlance of Bernoulli trials, a "success") of exactly 0.5. A widely publicized example of an asymmetrical coin is the Belgian one euro coin
Euro versus dollar	Advertising authorities in Moscow banned in 2003 a poster campaign showing the euro having sex with the US dollar. The campaign, by the Russian Finance magazine, was judged immoral by the Moscow Committee for advertising and information.
Sweden will not join the Eurozone	Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom decided not to adopt the single european currency, choosing to hold on to their national currencies instead. In Sweden, the anti-EMU campaign included the following ad. The reaction was the following...
Penis on the Euro Coins?	When the first euro coins circulated, there was a rumor that people in Sweden were outraged, because Sweden is made to look like a limp penis on the new coins. Take a look at the pictures below to find out why. The second picture is a fake, probably the work of a Swedish artist!

Homer Simpson euro	Candy shop owner Jose Martinez shows an official Spanish 1 Euro coin with the face of Spanish King Juan Carlos (L) and another one altered to look like a face of cartoon character Homer Simpson in the northern Spanish town of Avile August 8, 2008. Martinez found the Homer Simpson coin in his shop's cash register while counting the days' transactions.
Counterfeit euro coins	Euro coins had their own share of troubles. By the way, all the coins and banknotes included in this page are the result of Photoshop manipulation and were not actual products that circulated the streets.
Counterfeit euro banknotes	Counterfeiting was a major problem for the new currency and in order to defeat this practice, a number of anti-counterfeit technologies were implemented in the design and minting process. It seems the counterfeiters were not too bright either...

Little-known coin facts

Introduction phase - the numbers behind the currency
Ads and counterfeits - alternative images of euro coins and banknotes
Circulation figures - how many coins and banknotes are there?