Central Banks Report on Coins in Circulation

We continue our periodic series of articles on the latest annual reports from central banks and the information they provide on circulating and commemorative coins.

European Central Bank

The European Central Bank (ECB) is not responsible for coins in the Eurosystem; that sits with the European Commission and the National Central Banks and/or finance ministries.

But in its latest annual report, the ECB notes that the value of euro coin circulation also grew by 4% reaching €32.5 billion at the end of 2022, 145 billion euro coins in total.

Spain

In 2022, Banco de España (BdE) put 845 million coins into circulation, equivalent to €208.8 million, a 65.5% increase in relation to 2021 figures, and only 6.6% less than prior to the pandemic.