Just like the last two German coins I posted (1 Euro Cent & 2 Euro Cent) I got this coin in change in Germany so I'm not sure what to classify it as. It's got the G mint mark which means it was minted at Karlsruhe. German mint marks always confuse me because the letter doesn't correspond with the name of the mint, it corresponds with when the mint was opened. Visit here to see the German mints and mint marks from over the years. This coin has the same design as the German 1 and 2 Euro Cent coins with the exception of the change of size and denomination. They took care of the confusion problem by implementing some design features such as: making the 1 Euro Cent one of the smallest coins I have ever owned, putting a special edge on the 2 Euro Cent coin, and making the edges of the 10 and 50 Euro Cent coins reeded. The 20 Euro Cent coins have "dents" instead of reeding and 1 and 2 Euro coins are significantly bigger than this 5 Euro Cent coin making it almost impossible to confuse this coin with any other Euro coin. It's almost like they didn't want to do anything fancy for these 5 Cent coins so they did all of the fancy stuff for the other coins and left this one mostly plain. This plain coin is worth $0.10. Not quite sure if that's an increase or a decrease from late 2008-early 2009 Euro-Dollar exchange rate.
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