I've heard about many Europeans use the Euro (€) for money (expect for Sweden and the UK where Swedes use the Swedish Franc and the British use the Pound (£)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_coins << COINS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes << BANK NOTES
http://europa.eu.int/euro
http://www.irlgov.ie/ecbi-euro/notes.htm
http://europa.eu.int/comm/economy_finance/euro/notes_and_coins/download/euro_en.tif << EURO SYMBOL

I love Euro notes and coins. I want a $2 coin! I think that is my favourite piece :)

Also, the bills are all prettyful. The USA is trying to be 'hip' now, colourizing some of the bills. They still aren't as pretty..

press and hold the "alt" key on the keyboard (beside the spacebar) , and press the keys: 0-1-2-8 (The number lock must be on. If not, press "NUM LOCK" on your keypad now.), then release the "alt" key (Windows only).

In short: ALT+0128

You should get this: € << EURO SIGN

...The USA is trying to be 'hip' now, colourizing some of the bills...it's not about being hip, it's about trying to make it harder to counterfeit money.

The USA is trying to be 'hip' now, colourizing some of the bills.

What's that supposed to mean? Whatever it does mean to you, this made my day. Thanks for the laugh.

Anyways, I love reading article headlines that describe how the dollar is going against the euro or the yen (finance/stock love).

Canada has colored money too. I'm sure I'm not the only one who laughed the first time they saw the new twenty dollar bill. I may have even had a few nightmares about it. I think I'm used to it now. lol
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/general/character/2001-04_20.htm

does the euro have braille too?

I think the Queen looks evil on it :P

I still have some of my euros from when I was over in Europe, I liked how the bills were all different sizes! I should change it back to CAD sometime, I think I have about 30€, around $50...

I love Euro notes and coins. I want a $2 coin! I think that is my favourite piece :)
Do you want a $2 or a €2 coin?
If it's a €2 coin you want, I can sell you one for $10 :D

As for the colourful money - it is NOTHING compared to the Dutch money before the introduction of the €. Our money used to be the most colourful in the world, that's because the guy who designed it was inspired by monopoly money :lolol:

Do you want a $2 or a €2 coin?
If it's a €2 coin you want, I can sell you one for $10 :D

As for the colourful money - it is NOTHING compared to the Dutch money before the introduction of the €. Our money used to be the most colourful in the world, that's because the guy who designed it was inspired by monopoly money :lolol:

yeah our 10,- was blue, 25,- was orangered, 100,- was green, 250,- was purple
and our old money didn't lost his color so fast if you put it in the washing machine :p

I don't want the UK to join the Euro - it's fine with the pound. Sure, it will bring some benefits to larger countries because exchanges do not have to be made, and the same for holiday makers, but its a part of British culture, and exclusive to the UK, so I don't think we should change.

In short: ALT+0128
Or most keyboards let you do: CTRL + ALT + $ (4)

Chris

I live in America, but I take German so as part of our culture learning, we learned about Euro (pronounced OY-row in german), and my teacher gave us euro pennies.
€ I just had to try it out, could make an interesting sad smilie :€ :)

If the UK start to use the Euro there is gonna be some huge riots.

I personally dont wanna use the Euro!

Hmm, maybe it is a walrus smilie :€, yeah I think so.

Do you want a $2 or a €2 coin?
If it's a €2 coin you want, I can sell you one for $10 :D

As for the colourful money - it is NOTHING compared to the Dutch money before the introduction of the €. Our money used to be the most colourful in the world, that's because the guy who designed it was inspired by monopoly money :lolol:

I have a €2 coin. I just think it would be nice to have a $2 coin made. Okay..apparently people didn't understand that.

The reason I said USA was trying to be 'hip' now, colourizing the bills, is because they didn't give a hoot until the Euro started, and then they looked around at Canada, etc, and said - "hey, a lot of people have coloured bills and we have fugly ones..."

And personally, the new colourized bills are pretty darn ugly themselves...

Our notes are dull, not all pretty colours like those...we just use the different size thing...£5 is the smallest note then they get bigger £10, £20, £50 etc

Do you still get £1 notes? I havn't seen any recently, so I thought that they might have stopped producing them. There is a £5 coin, but you have to buy them to get one.... :lol:

Nah we havn't had £1 in England in eons...don't know if Scotland still have them or not, they did last time i was up there!

I have a £5 coin, my next door neighbour gave it to me :)

There was so much hype when the £2 coin came out - I wonder why the same didn't happen for the £5 coin?

If the UK start to use the Euro there is gonna be some huge riots.

I personally dont wanna use the Euro!

i didn't wanted to either, but you get used to it pretty fast. Now i'm bothered about all the people that are complaining about it in the store i work in... it's there and it's not going away anywayz so ugh i wish they stopped complaining. The 1 and 2 cents are gone anywayz, not something i wished for anywayz. They have made everything even more expensive. But i guess people are rather for a more empty wallet instead ...

anywayz, isn't this thread a little late? lol, the euro has been around for a while already, and even they already made some changes in it aswell (removed the 1 and 2 cents)

$1.00 Canadian equals €0.62
$1.00 US equals €0.77
¥100 equals €0.73
£1.00 equals €1.45

€1.00 = $1.60 Canadian
€1.00 = £0.69
€1.00 = ¥138
€1.00 = $1.30 US

€ Euro
¥ Yen
£ Pound
$ Dollar

(as of this posting)

The reason I said USA was trying to be 'hip' now, colourizing the bills, is because they didn't give a hoot until the Euro started, and then they looked around at Canada, etc, and said - "hey, a lot of people have coloured bills and we have fugly ones..."

Ever thought the government had a completely different approach in mind instead of trying to be 'hip'? I'd go with the "anti-counterfeit" statement.

A safer, smarter and more secure $20 note began circulating October 9, 2003, as part of the U.S. government's ongoing effort to stay ahead of counterfeiting and maintain worldwide confidence and trust in U.S. currency.
--- http://moneyfactory.com/newmoney/main.cfm/currency/new20

I knew that if I were part of a bureau where they printed money, I wouldn't be wasting ink just to be 'hip', I'd be using the ink to help keep it safe/etc.

The 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euro banknotes are so cool.

The 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.50, 1, and 2 euro coins are cool also.

The 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euro banknotes are so cool.

there's nothing cool about 100,200 and 500. You can almost never pay with them since most shops don't accept. Some do accept 100, like supermarkets, but most drugstores etc don't because they are made fake very often these days. However if you get cash out of the wall (you know, with your card) you almost always get a banknote of 100 when you choose 100, and not two of 50. Sometimes i get a person at the desk on my work (i work in a drugstore) who wants to pay with 100 but we can't accept. I'm glad we don't, 100 is too much and people are often too lazy to search for money so they choose the easy way and pay with 100 when the products together only cost 10 euro's for example. Sometimes we get fights haha, if a person doesn't agree with the fact we don't accept them :P I can imagine that they don't like it, and i can imagine that the clients are the one who are in the middle of this, since they have no control over it. But yeah life sucks :P

here most ATMS give you $20 bills, regardless of the amount (and you have to enter a multiple of 20)- some also 10s, but rarely anything larger.

and some places don't take $50 or larger bills just because they dont want to deal with that much cash (like fast food places), but a drug store might- and usually they'll use the special pen things that you write on the bill with and that change color if it's real

yes, we use the pen at a bill of 50 euro ...
i wish they would give you bills of 20 or 10 here aswell haha

100 is not accepted for security reason at the most. But also for what you say, dude, that the shops don't want to have that much cash. Especially when the shops just go open in the morney they mostly have only a few notes of 10, a few of 5 and some cash coins. Atleast that's what we have when opening at 9 o'clock in the morning, and when i get already 3 people that pay with 50 i'm already broke at the desk. After all, why do people need 100 euro for a drugstore anywayz? LoL. I see the only people that might get over or close to 100 euro's are parents that are buying dypers (sp?) and food for their babies for a week or 2.

oh well, let's not start about people being lazy when paying haha. One tip: when you have to pay euro 10,10 for example, LOOK for a coin of 10 eurocents atleast or 20 eurocents .. that's even better then nothing. You are really not doing any favors by paying with 20 euro LOL

i didn't wanted to either, but you get used to it pretty fast. Now i'm bothered about all the people that are complaining about it in the store i work in... it's there and it's not going away anywayz so ugh i wish they stopped complaining. The 1 and 2 cents are gone anywayz, not something i wished for anywayz. They have made everything even more expensive. But i guess people are rather for a more empty wallet instead ...

anywayz, isn't this thread a little late? lol, the euro has been around for a while already, and even they already made some changes in it aswell (removed the 1 and 2 cents)

The thing that will hack me off will be the exchange rate. is it 1 euro 50cent to a £1 GBP?

I think it will confuse me so much.

The 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euro banknotes are so cool.

The 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.50, 1, and 2 euro coins are cool also.

I still have a lot of Euros from my trip to Europe, but I went to Germany/Austria/Switzerland, but in Switzerland they have the coolest --> A 5 Franc coin. It's like...huge! It was so neat :P

And whoever said about the different sizes of Euros and how that was cool, I actually wondered about that; my German teacher said it's for the blind, so they can tell which bill they're using. I thought that was neat.

there's my pointless tidbit of the day.

The thing that will hack me off will be the exchange rate. is it 1 euro 50cent to a £1 GBP?

I think it will confuse me so much.

I think that's about right, your exchange rate - has to be something like that.

currency converter...
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency

I think that's about right, your exchange rate - has to be something like that.

Ahh.

And you said that prices have risen since the euro has been brough into place, i dunno about that lol.

I hate things getting more expensive.

well, they did at first, groceries and clothing and especially restaurants and bars got a LOT more expensive. Some bars just changed the 'guilder' sign to the euro sign, meaning the price would go up by 120%.
Parking machines in towncenters were the same, parking got a LOT more expensive.

But groceries got a lot cheaper over the last year, and we never eat out or go to bars (going out is not for asthma patients in this country) so now it's not so bad - plus I've got a fulltime job now, so we have a lot more money to spend.

Hmm, maybe it is a walrus smilie :€, yeah I think so.
It looks like it has a runny nose...
:rolleyes: :lol:

well, they did at first, groceries and clothing and especially restaurants and bars got a LOT more expensive. Some bars just changed the 'guilder' sign to the euro sign, meaning the price would go up by 120%.
Parking machines in towncenters were the same, parking got a LOT more expensive.

But groceries got a lot cheaper over the last year, and we never eat out or go to bars (going out is not for asthma patients in this country) so now it's not so bad - plus I've got a fulltime job now, so we have a lot more money to spend.

Ahh i see how changing the Guilder sign did make it expensive lol.

Ill just wait and see if the UK does get the Euro and ill see how i react :P

As of this posting:

$1 US gives you €0.74 (actually €0.7421)
¥100 gives you €0.71 (actually €0.713024)
$1 Canadian gives you €0.61 (actually €0.6158)

<sarcastic>That's great!</sarcastic>

I think we can look it up ourselves.

Ill just wait and see if the UK does get the Euro and ill see how i react :P

For some reason, I hope it doesn't.