Portugal

Commemorative coin

2007

50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome

(Part of the joint issue " 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome ")

Official Journal of the European Union

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, Eurogroup Ministers decided that euro-area Member States would strike a 2-euro commemorative coin using a common design on the national side. The selected design is the outcome of a joint preparation by the European Mints. Issuing States: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia and Finland. The centre of the coin shows the Treaty signed by the six founding Member States on a background evoking the paving, designed by Michelangelo, of the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome where the Treaty was signed on 25 March 1957. The translation of the word ‘Europe ’appears above the book. The translation of the words ‘Treaty of Rome 50 years ’is inscribed above the design. The year 2007 and the national name of the issuing country are inscribed under the design. The twelve stars of the European flag are depicted on the outer ring. TRATADO DE ROMA/50 ANOS/EUROPA/PORTUGAL The mintmark appears at the right hand side of the design.

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The "Treaty establishing the European Community", known as the "Treaty of Rome" (originally called the "Treaty establishing the European Economic Community" and renamed the "Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union" in December 2009), was signed on 25 March 1957 by Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands at the Conservators' Palace in Rome. It entered into force on 1 January 1958. Two other treaties were concluded at the same time, the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, which created EURATOM, and the Agreement on common institutions for the European Communities, which stipulated that the European Economic Community (EEC), the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) and the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) would have a common parliamentary assembly (now the European Parliament), a common European Court of Justice and a common Economic and Social Committee. On 5 May 2006, EU Commissioner Joaquín Almunia and Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker announced the first commemorative transnational €2 coin to mark the 50th anniversary of the "Treaty of Rome" (not to be confused with the Treaty of Rome, 1924). The mint directors of the Italian Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, the Spanish mint Real Casa de la Moneda and the Austrian Mint met in Vienna to brainstorm. The engraver Helmut Andexlinger was commissioned to combine the presented implementation ideas into a "joint design", and after design approval he produced the model of the coin. It depicts the treaty with the signatures of the representatives of the six founding states, framed by the pavement pattern of Capitol Square in Rome, the place of the signing, designed by Michelangelo.

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