Maltese euro coins

Malta’s euro coins

On 1 January 2008 Malta’s euro coins replaced the Maltese lira (MTL) at 1 euro = 0.429300 MTL, when Malta joined the European Monetary Union, after being a member of the European Union since May 2004.

A public competition involving Maltese citizens was held to select the designs for Malta’s national euro sides. The chosen designs were:

• 1, 2 and 5 euro cents: the Mnajdra temple, a prehistoric megalithic complex on Malta’s southern coast dating from the third millennium BC and a UNESCO World Heritage Site;
• 10, 20 and 50 euro cents: the coat of arms of the Republic of Malta;
• 1 and 2 euros: the eight-pointed cross of the Order of St John, known as the Maltese cross. The Hospitallers were based in Jerusalem, then Rhodes and, from 1530, Malta; the order was not founded on the island.

Malta’s euro coins were struck by the French mint, La Monnaie de Paris.

Links: Central Bank of Malta

Standard coins

1 cent 2008– 16,25 mm 2,30 g steel, copper
2 cent 2008– 18,75 mm 3,06 g steel, copper
5 cent 2008– 21,25 mm 3,92 g steel, copper
10 cent 2008– 19,75 mm 4,10 g nordic gold
20 cent 2008– 22,25 mm 5,74 g nordic gold
50 cent 2008– 24,25 mm 7,80 g nordic gold
1 euro 2008– 23,25 mm 7,50 g nickel, brass, copper
2 euro 2008– 25,75 mm 8,50 g nickel, brass, copper

Commemorative 2 euro coins

2009 10th anniversary of Economic and Monetary Union
2012 10th anniversary of euro coins entering circulation
2014 200th anniversary of the police
2015 30th anniversary of the European flag

2015 100th anniversary of the first flight from the island
2021 Heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic
2022 22nd anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security
2022 35 years of the Erasmus programme

2023 Arrival of the French in Malta in 1798
2023 550th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus
2024 Maltese honey bee
2024 The Citadel of Gozo

2025 Native species: Il-Gendus Malti
2025 Walled city of Mdina

Maltese constitutional history series

2011 Election of representatives in 1849
2012 Representative majority in 1887
2013 Self-government in 1921

2014 Independence from the United Kingdom in 1964
2015 Proclamation of the Republic of Malta in 1974

Series on the Malta Community Chest Fund’s “From Children in Solidarity” programme

2016 Solidarity through love
2017 Peace
2018 Cultural heritage

2019 Nature and environment
2020 Games

Maltese prehistoric sites series

2016 Gigantia
2017 Hagar Qim
2018 Menaidra
2019 Ta Hagrat

2020 Scorba
2021 Tarxien
2022 Ħal Saflieni

Source: ECB: national sides.