Aside from the economic value as payment for goods and services, coins play a significant role in a nation’s history, often paying homage to Filipinos with outstanding accomplisgments or worthy of emulation, celebrating momentous events, and promoting with pride the country’s historical sites or natural wonders.
They relate, in particular, to ongoing tensions in several euro area financial  BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  markets and the potential spillover to the euro area real economy. These risks should be contained by effective action by all policy-makers in the euro area.