Memories Of National Currencies

eurobillsandcoins · Post by **eurobillsandcoins** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 2:09 am

What was your favourite note from the 12 countries?
As a Exchange dealer mine were:
Austria-500 Schillings (beautiful blend of colours)
Belgium-100 Francs (as above)
Germany-100 Mark(hologram,piano and lustre strip)
Finland-500 Markkaa (red colour and hologram)
France-50 Franc(little prince)
Greece-new 5000 drachma(at least best of the greek notes)
Ireland-100 punt (I don't know)
Italy-50000 lira(bright)
Luxembourg-5000 franc (design not bad)
Netherlands-10 guilder (the complicated and bright colour)
Portugal-10000 escudos (highest denomination)
Spain-2000 peseta(bright colour)
So these are my favourites,what are yours?

K3lvin · Post by **K3lvin** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 5:37 am

I'd say 1000 markkaa note is my #1, 100 markkaa note comes second.
All the former Finnish notes:
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BossaNova · Post by **BossaNova** » Sat Dec 07, 2002 1:13 pm

Portugal - 2000 escudos, a beatifull blue note (9.98euro)
Italy - 1000 lire, probably because they were so small and also because with few money you could have lots of them...
Greece - 1000 dracmas.. I like the designs very much..

I also dealt with french francs and spanish pesetas, but don't remember very well the notes..

but I guess 10 francs was very nice... hmm and also 10 deutsh mark.. but this was the only mark note I ever had.. never been to Germany..

anette · Post by **anette** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 1:34 pm

I travelled a lot in Europe before and honestly think the most beautiful and well-formed bills were here in Finland. 100 mk bill was my favourite.
But I dont miss markka because eurobills are the same quality and beauty

Fundamental · Post by **Fundamental** » Fri Dec 13, 2002 10:40 am

I took this long for me to realise how beautiful was our old 100 marks back side..

Stello · Post by **Stello** » Sat Dec 14, 2002 6:20 am

To be honest, I miss the old coins much more..

€ coins are so tiny!