Wales has never been an issuing authority for euro coinage — the United Kingdom opted out of the eurozone, and even within the UK, coin issuance is reserved exclusively to the Royal Mint on behalf of the Crown. This piece is a fantasy or pattern struck for the collector market, almost certainly privately produced, exploiting the post-2002 appetite for regional euro "what-if" issues that flooded into the numismatic trade throughout the mid-2000s.
Wales has never been an issuing authority for euro coinage — the United Kingdom opted out of the eurozone, and even within the UK, coin issuance is reserved exclusively to the Royal Mint on behalf of the Crown. This piece is a fantasy or pattern struck for the collector market, almost certainly privately produced, exploiting the post-2002 appetite for regional euro "what-if" issues that flooded into the numismatic trade throughout the mid-2000s.