Diffusion in Holland

Skylimit · Post by **Skylimit** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 9:21 pm

I just wonder why diffusion is different in Belgium and in Holland

Donald · Post by **Donald** » Mon Jan 27, 2003 9:51 pm

I cannot explain this, but here you find some additional information:
http://www.wiskgenoot.nl/eurodiffusie/resultaten.html
This shows that the Netherlands mostly have foreign coins from Germany and Belgium, while Belgium mostly has foreign coins from the Netherlands, France and Germany.
The fraction of foreign coins has the same tendency (10% difference) as for notes.

wouter · Post by **wouter** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 10:50 am

Belgium has more borders! The netherlands are only connected to Belgium, Germany and the Sea! where belgium also has borders with france ands Luxemburg

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 4:26 pm

Yeah...
Maybe Luxemburg is the big evil do-er !
If we get a note from Luxemburg, it's a foreign note, but if they get a LU note in NL, it's just a P-note, so it's not foreign!

Elmo · Post by **Elmo** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 5:15 pm

And in Belgium there seem to circulate lots of Spanish €20-bills (the pooling system!)

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Else still 55% of the bills in Belgium would be Belgian.

Tiger · Post by **Tiger** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 6:00 pm

Yes, I wanted to say that too, we have A LOT of Spanish M007 notes of 20EUR! About 20% of the 20EUR notes I encounter are Spanish !

The last couple of days I also got a lot of Portugues notes of 20 euro !
But I don't think it's someting to do with the pooling system, but just plain luck!

It took me 4 months to get my first Portuguese note, and now I suddenly got 4 in 2 days !

Skylimit · Post by **Skylimit** » Tue Jan 28, 2003 7:57 pm

Tiger wrote:Yeah...
Maybe Luxemburg is the big evil do-er !

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:18 am

The reason is probably that Belgium has important roads (in European scale) while the Netherlands do not.

For example if one is driving from Denmark to France, he will almost surely drive through Aachen and then to Belgium, thus never visiting the Netherlands. The only reason for going to the Netherlands is going to the Netherlands. It's not on the way between any other places.

And if you check http://eurodiffusie.nl/ , you can notice from those pie charts that the difference still exists.

EuroBillTracker

Diffusion in Holland

Why are still 59% of the bills in Holland Dutch, and only 49% of the bills in Belgium Belgian

Diffusion in Holland