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As the 2nd anniversary of the Euro is approaching, this seemed like an interesting idea for a thread...
I came back from a flee market today and discovered that I had ended up with quite a lot of change. While assessing the 'damage', I noticed I had quite a few different nationalities in there. (For those who've been living under a rock for the past 3 years: in (most of) the EU we've had the Euro as a common currency for the past ~2 years. The coins of the Euro have a common and a national side, where the national side looks different depending on in which country it was minted.)
I counted:
1 Spanish,
1 Irish,
1 Greek,
1 Finnish,
3 French,
3 German,
4 Belgian,
9 Dutch
coins.
Quite unusual, because before today I had never seen either Greek or Finnish coins before -- quite freakish to get both at the same time. Instead of these nationalities, I would statistically have expected Austrian and Italian coins. Also, although I'm Dutch and live in the Netherlands, I usually actually have more German than Dutch coins in my wallet: a combination of living only a few kilometers from the German border and simple statistics (there are far more German coins in circulation than Dutch ones).
So, for those of you living in the Eurozone, how many nationalities of Euro coins do you have in your wallet right now? (The 13+ option is for the unlikely case that you have coins from Vatican City/Monaco/etc as well as from all 12 official Eurozone members).
For those living outside the Eurozone (inside or outside the EU), how many different currencies do you carry around at the moment? (E.g. pounds, Euros, dollars, pesos, etc)
Also, does anyone know if/when the new EU members will get their own coins and if there's anything known on what they will look like?
I came back from a flee market today and discovered that I had ended up with quite a lot of change. While assessing the 'damage', I noticed I had quite a few different nationalities in there. (For those who've been living under a rock for the past 3 years: in (most of) the EU we've had the Euro as a common currency for the past ~2 years. The coins of the Euro have a common and a national side, where the national side looks different depending on in which country it was minted.)
I counted:
1 Spanish,
1 Irish,
1 Greek,
1 Finnish,
3 French,
3 German,
4 Belgian,
9 Dutch
coins.
Quite unusual, because before today I had never seen either Greek or Finnish coins before -- quite freakish to get both at the same time. Instead of these nationalities, I would statistically have expected Austrian and Italian coins. Also, although I'm Dutch and live in the Netherlands, I usually actually have more German than Dutch coins in my wallet: a combination of living only a few kilometers from the German border and simple statistics (there are far more German coins in circulation than Dutch ones).
So, for those of you living in the Eurozone, how many nationalities of Euro coins do you have in your wallet right now? (The 13+ option is for the unlikely case that you have coins from Vatican City/Monaco/etc as well as from all 12 official Eurozone members).
For those living outside the Eurozone (inside or outside the EU), how many different currencies do you carry around at the moment? (E.g. pounds, Euros, dollars, pesos, etc)
Also, does anyone know if/when the new EU members will get their own coins and if there's anything known on what they will look like?
Especially if you mix in the other currencies: of the 12 different nationalities, I see 8 of them quite often (only Portuguese, Luxemburgian (is that the right word?), Greek and Finnish are (very) rare).
All my coins are Finnish except for one single Spanish 1-euro coin.
But if you regularily see 8 different nationalities I guess that's not the case.
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