1 Euro notes!

[nbeaudet]

A very high value?? No, it's just a commemorative coin but doesn't have a higher value than 500 BEF (12,39 EUR).

[BossaNova]

Today I read in a portuguese newpaper that an italian minister (Giulio ..?) was going to ask the ECB to produce 1 euro notes to help controling inflation...

Maybe the real reason for asking this 1 Euro note was this

I think this is a very strong reason.. poor stripers...

just imagine your underwear full of cold coins

today this story (the 1 euro note, not the stripers) got to national tv.. portuguese consumers association also want this note..

the association of industry and trade don't

now I think I'm definitly with the yes side

bn

ps: some time ago my mother received a 10 franc coin as a 1 euro coin, it looked to her as just another foreign coin.. some months ago it would be a good deal, but now..

[cash-fire]

In the past, notes were money, and coins were nothing...
you get them as change, or use them in vending machines... but you don't pay with them in a shop

Now those coins really have a vallue...
In Belgium we had a 100Bfr note (2.50euro) and I used that really often.
Now I always have to use 2euro coins.
For me there could be a note of 2euro, but 1 euro is to little.

That's the same, what this is all about in Italy.

I', living now in Naples since 3 years, so i had the old LIRE before, an there was the 1.000 LIRE note (50c) an the coins had been in use for the coffee-maker's tip or so....

But now, the Italians have to run around with all this coins, that are more valueable, than their former smallest note...

But who cares about this?

PS: Anybody wants italian Coins? ( twittkowski@libero.it ]

[Antti]

a drink in the vending machine at school is 40ct or 50ct, so no need for smaller coins than 20ct .

I'm jealous. At my school they cost 1.30€ and thats rather cheap in Finland.

But one thing just came to my mind: the drinks could be different sizes, the drinks I was talking about were ½litres, you must've talked about smaller drinks, or I'll move to Belgium .

This wasn't really about the topic, but I couldn't help writing this, and I just don't think I could have started a new topic about this.

[wouter]

a drink in the vending machine at school is 40ct or 50ct, so no need for smaller coins than 20ct .

I'm jealous. At my school they cost 1.30 € and thats rather cheap in Finland.

But one thing just came to my mind: the drinks could be different sizes, the drinks I was talking about were ½litres, you must've talked about smaller drinks, or I'll move to Belgium .

This wasn't really about the topic, but I couldn't help writing this, and I just don't think I could have started a new topic about this.

of course you could have started a topic about this, food is a popular topic on EBT at my school a bottle of 0,5 l coca-cola = € 1,25 and a can of 0,30 l = € 0,85 at my work in a supermarket the same can costs € 0.45

[Tiger]

I ment little bottles, I think they are 20cl.

So 40cent for 0.2l Fanta
Isn't that expensive...

[Antti]

of course you could have started a topic about this, food is a popular topic on EBT

Maybe Ishould, I'm just not sure whether this is off-topic or about Eurobilltracker users

[wouter]

off topic, very off topic

[Antti]

OK, I just created a new topic about it, hope you didn't create another

[Olivier]

The TV channel Euronews made a report on the topic "a bill of 1 €".
First, I thought it was not necessary, but I changed my mind. we have to know that a lots of people use the euro as a reserve currency, especially in Africa and the Balkans. For them, a note of 1 € has a real value. You can change it in a bank.

It would help the euro to be a real international currency. It would also be a good way for the european tourists to get a "pourboire" in the restaurants, etc... You can let two or three notes of one euro...

In the USA, they have kept the bill of 1 $... In Canada they don't use the 1$ but they have a bill of 2$.

Olivier

[bhoeyb]

A banknote looks always more than a coin, with the same value.
Probably you're right about using euro's in non-european countries.
Last year I was in Venezuela. Many things you could pay in USD. In december, I'll go back. I hope you can use the euro overthere too just as you can use USD. But every "big" item like a trip etc. will be rounded at 5E because we don't have 1E notes .

[Tiger]

In the past I have a lot of notes, and some coins...
Now I have only coins

Most of the time I buy things with a note, and I get coins of 1 and 2 euro back...

It's incredibly how much coins I have after a while !
I now have 2 notes (15 euro) and 36 coins of 2 euro !!!

I don't know if notes of 1 or 2 euro would solve this....
But we can always try

[Saaropean]

In the USA, they have kept the bill of 1 $... In Canada they don't use the 1$ but they have a bill of 2$.

Je pensais que tu connais ce pays...

(http://www.mint.ca/en/collectors_corner ... x_circ.htm)
The two dollar coin was first introduced on February 19, 1996 to replace the two dollar bank note. The coins will last about 20 times longer than the two dollar notes they replaced.

Since 16 February 1996, the smallest bill has been 5$, and I never saw an old 2$ bill. 1$ bills were abolished in 1989.

As a German, it would be strange for me to pay amounts of a few euros with a bill. Of course the coins make the wallet heavier, but they do have a higher life expectancy. If I think of the bad condition of many Italian 1000 lire, I don't believe I don't want that to happen to euro notes.


And now some statistics in favour of me :
In pre-euro times, the smallest bill was between 29 cents (100 Greek drachmes) and 6.35 euros (5 Irish pounds). If you count each of the 11 euro countries equally, the average was 3.48 euros or 3.71 euro if you don't count the German 5 mark bill that was almost never used; most people preferred the 5 mark coin.
And if you weigh the 11 euro countries with their population, you can see that the smallest bill of the average eurozone citizen was 4.22 euros (5.08 if you don't count the 5 DM bill), which is pretty close to our 5 euro bill, isn't it?

[hebben-en-houden]

In the past I have a lot of notes, and some coins...
Now I have only coins

Most of the time I buy things with a note, and I get coins of 1 and 2 euro back...

It's incredibly how much coins I have after a while !
I now have 2 notes (15 euro) and 36 coins of 2 euro !!!

Why don't you go to a little shop in the neighbourhood and ask if they need some eurocoins?

They will be realy happy with your offer and you will receive new banknotes to register on EBT!!

[byrnefm]

In Ireland, the largest coin we had was worth €1.27. The £5 (=€6.35) note (our lowest denomination note) used to get worn-out *very* quickly. Now we have the €5 and this gets worn out even more quickly! The €5 notes we see here already look like they're years old! I've heard several people comment that we should have a €5 coin instead, because of the short-lived €5's.