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Impression of possible Andorra €2 coin national side
Andorran euro coins have not yet been designed.
Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican City State are the only non-European Union member states to issue their own euro coins (which are minted by France and Italy). These three countries obtained the right to do this because they had had monetary agreements with France and Italy on the use of legal tender. Andorra, however, did not have a formal monetary agreement with either Spain or France, possibly due to the fact that it did not even have a comprehensive constitution up until 1993. Andorra is currently in negotiations with the EU on a monetary agreement which would grant it the right to mint a limited number of euro coins. The negotiations are still ongoing as of November 2006 and are expected to last for at least two more years; the reason is that the European Union expects Andorra to comply with related European Union legislation and security measures before minting coins.[1] It is thus expected that Andorra will first mint its own euro coins in 2009 at the earliest.[2]
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