EuroBillTracker

found this one in mi til yesterday


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i need to teach the staff more about mony

I don't live in the euro area but here in the UK I've been given an Icelandic coin which looked like £1 and which I then found difficult to get rid of
I've also got a coin from Gibraltar and Jersey (if I remember correctly) but I guess they are legal tender over here.

zarazek wrote:I don't live in the euro area but here in the UK I've been given an Icelandic coin which looked like £1 and which I then found difficult to get rid of
I've also got a coin from Gibraltar and Jersey (if I remember correctly) but I guess they are legal tender over here.

Guess what you got was a 50 kr coin (with a crab); roughly the same size and "color" as a £1 coin but not that thick ... and worth about 25 pence. Well, the design is nice but I would not give you £1 or €1 for it either.

British coins are legal tender in Jersey and Guernsey for example, but not the other way round. Then again, Channel Islands coins are from the very same sterling area that England and Scotland are part of, they have same value and basically the same technical specifications as their British counterparts, so quite a few people will accept them.

Do you come across euro coins and notes where you are, or do you regularly travel to the euro area? Just wondering ...

Christian

You're absolutely right about the Icelandic coin - it was a 50 kronur piece.
As for the Gibraltar coin, it's a 20p piece from 2007 (with a set of keys on the obverse), couldn't find the other coin from the Channel Islands so it's probably gone.

Well, I don't think I've ever been given change in euro here but I have seen a coin from Spain lying on the pavement a long time ago (which I obviously picked up

Where I live, I come across banknotes from an other Pound-zone country, namely England ) I've also heard of people finding N Irish notes but I've not been this lucky.
I have travelled to countries that use the euro but these days, regrettably, I don't do it often.

Tell me, does the NW in your Location field stand for Nordrhein Westfalen? Just being nosy

You got that right. I am in North Rhine Westphalia, and the abbreviation "NRW" is more common here. But NW is the actual ISO code, and looks better when combined with two other two-character codes, I think.

So welcome to the EuroBillTracker forum site! Do you get euro coins or notes from swappers maybe? I suppose that, if you did not have anything to do with the euro, you would not be here ...

Christian

I found this coin in a roll of 5c coins (from 1999)

so what foreign coins did people or machines actually accept as euro coins?

1c:
Germany 1 pfennig


2c:
USA 1 cent

Slovakia 50 halierov

Germany 2 pfennig


5c:
Brasil 5 centavos

United Kingdom 1 penny

South Africa 10 cents ??? which one?
South Afrika 5 cents


10c:
Brazil 10 centavos

(Mexico 20 centimos)

France 10 centimes

(Uruguay 1 peso)
(Mexico 10 centavos) ???

Yugoslavia 1 dinar


20c:
Slovenia 1 tolar


50c:
Yugoslavia 5 dinar

USA 1/4 dollar


1€:
France 10 francs

Bulgaria 1 lev

(Bahrain 100 fils)
Syria 25 pounds

Jamaica 20 dollars


2€:
Italy 500 lire

Italy 50 lire ??

Thailand 10 baht

Turkey 1 new lira

(Iran 500 rial)

Egypt 1 pound

My uncle found a 20 dollar coin from Jamaica. it is identical in diameter, shape, colour, weight (apparently) and even its edges are equal!!

He confused it with a €-coin from a "weird country" (he thought it was from San Marino or something strange, untill he read "jamaica" )

I found an image on the internet.

Not very good though, but just to give you an idea. I will try to get some fere time to make a picture myself of the coin, along with a 1€ just to show you

Jes,
That is a $20 coin,not a $5 coin.

The Jamaican $5 coin is a silver colour.

Aidan.

BCNumismatics wrote:Jes,
That is a $20 coin,not a $5 coin.

The Jamaican $5 coin is a silver colour.

Aidan.

Jep, true. I don't know what I was thinking about. Thanx

Corrected

I found this "1 euro" coin in my wallet, in Ireland:
It's Syria 25 Pounds..

At least the piece is nicely designed. Does it have the same size as a €1 coin?

Christian

Christian,
The Syrian coin looks bigger than a 1 Euro coin,& smaller than the 2 Euro coin.

I've seen a couple of examples of this coin in the past couple of years.

Aidan.

Ah, thanks! I saw it listed and depicted in androl's post above but had no idea about the diameter ...

Christian