Pretty strange that the banks hand outs 5 old euro bills.. banks are supposed to keep them and send them out to be destroyed.James87 wrote:Just withdrew 20 pieces from a bank, turned out that 7 or so were old notes. Funny thing is that these notes were virtually in perfect shape and yet someone had tracked them all already in 2013. Based on this really small amount of data I'd assume there's still many of those in different bank vaults. In Finland (or at least in Helsinki) the circulation has been going pretty much in waves according to my experiences. The new ones seemed to take quite a slow start, but at one point it seemed that old ones were almost like chicken teeth. Now I just received old ones and based on their history and shape, it would be a surprise if there wasn't more popping up.
Just a heads up for people living or visiting Helsinki, these all will be put into circulation at the Hartwall Arena pub. Beer money best money, eh?
On the old 5 euro bills in general: I actually started to collect them!
They are pretty rare here in Belgium. So far I only managed to collect about 30 of them.
Every old 5 euro bill I get at a certain instant, will stay with me.... And perhaps, in far future I might use them to pay something and then wait for the look on the face of the person getting them... (most likely thinking I am using some sort of fake money haha)