View Poll Results: How many nationalities of currency do you carry around right now?
1 (and I live in the Eurozone) 3 5.66%
2 (and I live in the Eurozone) 5 9.43%
3 (and I live in the Eurozone) 1 1.89%
4 (and I live in the Eurozone) 10 18.87%
5 (and I live in the Eurozone) 2 3.77%
6 (and I live in the Eurozone) 1 1.89%
7 (and I live in the Eurozone) 1 1.89%
8 (and I live in the Eurozone) 2 3.77%
9 (and I live in the Eurozone) 2 3.77%
10 (and I live in the Eurozone) 0 0%
11 (and I live in the Eurozone) 0 0%
12 (and I live in the Eurozone) 0 0%
13+ (and I live in the Eurozone) 1 1.89%
1 (and don't live in the Eurozone) 7 13.21%
2 (and don't live in the Eurozone) 9 16.98%
3 (and don't live in the Eurozone) 1 1.89%
4 (and don't live in the Eurozone) 0 0%
5+ (and don't live in the Eurozone) 1 1.89%
0 -- I'm broke 6 11.32%
I pay for everything with Bananas 1 1.89%
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Old November 2, 2003, 19:03   #31
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I got a Swazilandese coin as a 50p piece once. That was odd.
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Wow..

I just looked at my coins... I have 8 pieces all of different nationalities.... that's cool

I have 1 German 2€ (The Eagle)
1 Italian 1€ (The Leonardo's man)
1 Dutch 1€ (The face of Beatrix)
1 Spanish 20 cent (The face of a man with beard and mustache)
1 French 20 cent (The woman)
1 Belgian 20 cent (I guess it's Belgian but I'm not 100%, it has the face of a man with a pair of glasses)
1 Greek 10 cent (An old person with big mustache)
1 Irish 5 cent (The "Guiness Symbol" )

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16 Dutch
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3 German
3 French

And some loose American, British, Icelandic and Jamaican change...

Bring back the Guilder goddammit!
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The number of times I get NZ coins in my change is unbelievable. They are similar enough to Aussie coints to trick anyone who simply glances at them, and they even work in vending machines. I'm planning on going to New Zealand, when I do I will go to a bank, order $10,000 worth of 5,10 and 20 cent coins, ship them bag in my luggage and take them to an Australian bank and claim them to be Australian coins. A sweet little exchange rate of 1 for 1.

I also noticed the other day that Fiji coins are also identical. I need to check out that exchange rate first I think.
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Found 6 euro coins in my pocket.
3 finnish, one german, one spanish and one italian.

Which country do you think has coolest coins?
I prefer Italian, Finnish, Greek, and San marinese- they even have the statue of liberty in their coins
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Does anyone know about the dynamics of euro circulation? I guess that holiday destinations would have a much greater mix of different countrys coins, as holiday makers would bring their coins from their home country. Except for holidays, what other reasons can coins have for crossing the border?
It is more dependent on vicinity, and on the size of the country (the total number of coins of that country that is circulating).
I also noticed that the big coins (1 or 2 euro) go further than the small coins (1, 2 or 5 cent).
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As for the dynamics of the Euro, yeah, a lot of it comes from tourism, but don't forget international business and other official traffic either (and international 'Poly Meets ).

But mores structually, in the Dutch-German border area, there's a lot of cross-border traffic. When I go shopping, I go shopping wherever I can get my stuff the easiest and/or cheapest. Sometimes that's in Germany, sometimes that's in the Netherlands. The same goes for everyone living in the Dutch-German border area, on both sides of the border. So this way a lot of German money makes its way into the Netherlands and vice versa.

Since I sometimes also go shopping in Deventer or Amsterdam or other Dutch cities well away from the German border, my German Euro coins end up spreading to the rest of the country as well, and from there into Belgium. Similarly Dutch Euro coins will end up spreading through Germany and from there into other German Eurozone neighbours (though of course Germany is much bigger than the Netherlands, so the spread will be much slower and less noticeable). I reckon it works this way for most/all internal borders within the Eurozone...


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Don't know what you did, but I would've accepted it and kept it for my collection. That's worth 50p to me

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Definitely Italy, though Spanish and German coins I also rather like. Don't think I've ever seen coins from San Marino (or the Vatican or Monaco for that matter), not even pictures of them. If anyone has a link, I would like to know what they look like. Belgium coins are defintely the ugliest, though the Dutch ones don't rank particularly high either (and that while we used to have the coolest bank notes in the world ).
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There's a lot of them and they're all Finnish, except for one which seems to be Greek.
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Here you go locutus http://www.eurocoins.co.uk/sanmarino.html
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4 dull Belgian
3 dutch
1 French
1 Irish

I 've to come accros a Vatican one.
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Thanks for the link laurentius, that one's going into my Favourites

San Marinese coins look quite nice indeed The Vatican ones appear to be even uglier than the Belgium ones, if such a thing is possible...
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As if anyone is going to pay in a shop with vatican coins.
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Italian and french look nice. Austrian nice in a strange flowery way.
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lots of Austrian and a German one.

The german eagly looks cool! I like German one and two euro coins much better than ours. But I like Greece one euro coin best. The owl looks great. Also greece got very nice copper coins (ships). Of course italian also look great. I think italian and greece are among best looking coins.
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Here in the US we are having this fun thing with our quarters, we have replaced our traditional bald eagle with quarters in which the tail side represents a US state. Each state quarter is minted for 10 weeks, and goes in order by date of statehood. The first 13 states are in the order they signed the Constitution.
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9. Surprisingly low considering I'm at Europe's party capital (packed with tourists April-October)...

The San-Marino coins though, €300 for a non-circulated set?! Mental...
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Don't know what you did, but I would've accepted it and kept it for my collection. That's worth 50p to me
Yup. I kept it even after the guy who gave it to me realised his mistake and tried to take it back.
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I had a Gibraltar 20p, but I spent it by accident.
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Gibraltar has it's own currency?

Euros or pounds?
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Gibraltar has it's own currency?
So do most of the UK dependency isles, such as Isle of Man and the Channel Isles.
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i live in the states, and I have 5 euros and some dollars in my wallet. At home, I have a stash of pesos, and even some francs
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The number of times I get NZ coins in my change is unbelievable. They are similar enough to Aussie coints to trick anyone who simply glances at them, and they even work in vending machines.
And vice-versa, though it only normally works with 20c coins.
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So why dont you guys join the EU and euro?
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25 Belgian (I urgently need to get rid of all my small exchange... )
4 French
1 German
1 Luxemburg

Oddly enough I rarely see Dutch coins.
Is the latter to be so surprising ? :d
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Non Euro zone, I have 1 dutch and 1 german euro coin in my pocket right now.
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