2 Euros German Reunification

Issued to mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of German reunification, this coin commemorates the October 3, 1990 accession of the five reconstituted eastern Länder to the Federal Republic — a process completed with remarkable speed following the fall of the Berlin Wall less than a year earlier. The legal mechanism was Article 23 of the West German Basic Law, which allowed accession rather than the drafting of an entirely new constitution, a deliberate choice that remains debated by constitutional scholars.