Erj190 From Portugal, joined Dec 2000, 397 posts, RR: 0 Posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1981 times:
Today I bought the Saturday's newspaper.
I got my change, and I have received EUR 3.60
When I looked at the coins, there was a German EUR 2 coin, a French EUR 1 coin, a Portuguese 50 EUR cent coin, a Spanish 5 EUR cent coin and an Irish 5 EUR cents coin.
This looked like a Salad
I would like to know if you ppl that use the Euro are watching the same thing.
LufthansaUSA From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 188 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1912 times:
Today I bought a newspaper, and received 75c in change. A US 25c coin, two Canadian coins, and 3 coins from Mexico. Wait, that was a nightmare, not reality...
Racko From Germany, joined Nov 2001, 4838 posts, RR: 21 Reply 3, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1905 times:
Here we regularly get French, Belgian, Dutch, Spanish and Austrian coins. The only countries whose coins I've never seen here are Vatican, San Marino, Finland and Monaco.
Schoenorama From Spain, joined Apr 2001, 2440 posts, RR: 29 Reply 4, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 1901 times:
Some months ago in Holland at a coin-shop, they were selling Spanish 10 cents coins at ....... 1 Euro! And these coins aren't even rare when you consider all the European tourists that have their holidays in Spain!
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
Clipperhawaii From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2033 posts, RR: 13 Reply 6, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1890 times:
I bought 2 magazines, National Geographic Adventure, Snowboard Journal, and a mocha from Starbucks. Both times I recieved U.S. quarters, U.S. dimes, U.S. nickels and U.S. pennies.
Racko From Germany, joined Nov 2001, 4838 posts, RR: 21 Reply 7, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1882 times:
Well, maybe I'm the only one, but I love to travel, I love to visit other countries, see other cultures and I love the €uro for making trips through Europe so easy.
Clipperhawaii From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2033 posts, RR: 13 Reply 8, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1882 times:
And just in case you are wondering. 1 dollar 1.00000 = Euro 0.931971
Where can one go to see the different obverse and reverse of Euro coins? Any links?
It may come to you as a strange thing, but tomorrow I will be buying some Sunday newspaper, eventually with a 2 Euro coin with the national simbol of Germany, but I really don't think sovereignty is at stake. It is not.
P.S. Up to now have not seen Euros from Finland, Luxembourg and Austria.
Actually, the Vatican, Monaco and I think S.Marino also have Euro coins with their respective simbols.
Although I think this happens more because Italians have this thing about collecting stuff.
Clipperhawaii From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 2033 posts, RR: 13 Reply 11, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 1877 times:
Nice coins with great symbols of their respective countries! Thanks for the links.
FLYING MACHINE From Spain, joined May 2002, 223 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 1829 times:
In Spain we see many from France LIBERTE,EGALITE ,FRATERNITE, Portugal,and some from Germany. For me the most beautifull ones are the Italian ones . €URO is great,I hope to see soon new countrys like Slovenia using this currency.
Airsicknessbag From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 4723 posts, RR: 38 Reply 15, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1752 times:
Interesting, I was going to start a topic about how the coins finally do start to mix.
So these are my observations:
Notes started mixing very early, right from the start, 15 months ago. At the moment, about 10 to 20 % of the notes I get are foreign ones.
For the first year or so, foreign coins were absolutely rare to find in normal circulation. The introduction of the Euro started a massive hype of collecting, so everyone started to pick out foreign coins.
Now, apparently, most people´s collections are complete, at least as far as the major non-German series are concerned (France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Netherlands [also depending on your whereabouts in Germany]).
Scientists predict that within 5 years, the coins will be evenly distributed all over Europe, i.e. every third coin will be German, whether you´re in Portugal, Germany or Finnland.
Daniel
P.S.: Two weeks ago, the Sanmarinese government charged my credit card with 44 EUR - now I´m waiting for the 2003 series to be delivered to me - then I´ll finally have one of each of the 120 coins (I´m ignoring years and places of mint)!
Arsenal@LHR From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 7791 posts, RR: 23 Reply 17, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1725 times:
I've never seen or used a Euro coin either, i'll stick to the pennies thanks.
GRZ-AIR From Austria, joined Apr 2001, 573 posts, RR: 4 Reply 18, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1726 times:
@Airsicknessbag
What do you mean by "Notes started mixing very early, right from the start, 15 months ago. At the moment, about 10 to 20 % of the notes I get are foreign ones." ..arent only the coins different in every country..and the notes are all the same over Europe.
I usually receive lots of German, Italian, French and Spanish €uros !!!
Airsicknessbag From Germany, joined Aug 2000, 4723 posts, RR: 38 Reply 19, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1717 times:
Yes, the design of the notes is identical. But the issuing country can be identified by the registration number´s first letter:
L = Finland
M = Portugal
N = Austria
P = Netherlands
S = Italy
T = Ireland
U = France
V = Spain
X = Germany
Y = Greece
Z = Belgium
Not in use at the moment:
J - UK
K - Sweden
R - Luxembourg (their notes are printed by the Dutch)
W - Denmark
You can also identify the place where the note was printed. Not that interesting in most countries, because they have only one printing place, but some have two, like Germany´s Bundesdruckerei/Berlin and Giesecke&Devrient/Munich. That so-called "short code" is very small on the front side, embedded in the design:
(A - Bank of England)
(C - AB Tumba Bruk, Sweden)
D - Setec Oy, Finland
E - F. C. Oberthur, France
F - Austrian National Bank
G - John. Enschede Security Printing, Netherlands
(H - De La Rue, UK)
J - Italian National Bank
K - Irish National Bank
L - French National Bank
M - Spanish National Bank
N - Greek National Bank
P - Giesecke & Devrient, Germany
R - German National Bank
(S - Danish National Bank)
T - Belgian National Bank
Commemorative €-coins
In The Netherlands we have since today (31-03-2003) a € 5,00-coin, with on the backside a portret of Vincent van Gogh and on the frontside a portret of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
Since the introduction of the €URO, The Netherlands has introduced two commemorative €-coins, which most likely won't show up in shops and stores in other €URO countries, as they're only a legal payment in The Netherlands:
2002: € 10,00 "Marriage of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and Maxima Zorreguieta".
2003: € 5,00 "150th Birthday of Vincent van Gogh".
I know that besides The Netherlands also Germany has at least one special commemorative € 10,00 coin.
How about the other €URO countries?
STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16247 posts, RR: 52 Reply 23, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 1645 times:
STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16247 posts, RR: 52 Reply 24, posted (10 years 1 month 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 1646 times:
The Quarters are issued in the Same order as States Ratified the Constitution and became States, Delaware was the first and Hawaii will be the last.
Click on the States name to see what the Quarters look like.
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25 Clipperhawaii: These Eruo coins have me fascinated. Great designs and yes, Itay's are very attractive. But they all have some nice designs. The EU has to be proud of
26 Erj190: Holland asked for authorization from the ECB to issue those special coins. Once they were issued by the ECB in Holland, those are legal tender in all
27 Airsicknessbag: No, not quite: unlike the standard coins, the special commemorative ones are legal tender only in the country of issue. The thing is they´re not iss
28 Airsicknessbag: ... Spain even has issued 200 and 400 Euro coins...
29 Erj190: Airsicknessbag, I am using this site for reference. http://yuri.no.sapo.pt I am unable to find any Portuguese special coins. Actually, I have no idea
30 Airsicknessbag: Paulo, I´m using http://www.muenzenfreund.net It´s all German, but if you go for "alle Eurogedenkmuenzen" (lower half, centre)you get to the menu of
31 Erj190: Thanks. Actually I remember now having heard something about the Euro 2004 coins. Yet, my favorite, is still the Portuguese 50 cents. The reason bein
32 Krushny: In my city, the overwhelming majority of Euro coins you see are Spanish. Occasionally I get some German, Italian, French and Portuguese ones. As for
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