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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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I want to collect modern. I don't have the time or funds to do collecting and school in Europe. I would at least like a euro book
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France
1591 Posts |
Hum, I don't think we have a serious reference for euro coins yet - those are very new.
I know they sell small coin books in book shops - which are cheap (with advertisement) but list almost everything.
There are real books for older coins though - but I never saw a pocket book for that.
If you go on the euro, you'll easily be able to collect them without a book, there are not that many (unless you go for a special complete date + error set).
Actually, when I say easily, I mean that you won't have issues sorting them out ... you will have issues to find em all :D (never saw a vatican one in my pocket since the euro is out for example - even when I went to the vatican city :p)
You could go for less modern ones as well (recent ones), those are cheap and can be found in flea markets if you come in the summer :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
850 Posts |
Well I was hoping to start a type set of the original 12 with all denominations to the two euro coin
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Pillar of the Community
United States
539 Posts |
building a type set won't be too hard from the perspecitve of sorting them out (as someone has said). and if it is your intent to buy out of circulation then you don't really need a ' Red Book'. a 2 Euro coin is going to cost you 2 Euro. My son lives in Germany and he watches for the various types for me so I can get circulated examples which are fine for me. |
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Pillar of the Community
France
1591 Posts |
weavus135 : even scarce types, like the vatican ones ?
Moreover since the Euro started, there are some new countries - those are not always easy to find :)
It's a nice collection to start, I suppose I don't do it as I see those coins everyday (and I'll regret it in 20 years when we'll have something else)
I sometime keep some special commemorative euros though :)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
539 Posts |
not sure what you are asking matheiuma. If you are asking whether my son finds ones from the vatican, that answer is no. He finds a few from the various EU countries but he hasn't found any from like Estonia
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Pillar of the Community
France
1591 Posts |
Yep, that's what I was asking :) Getting a complete Euro set from pocket change is close to impossible (unless you own a grocery store)
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
1064 Posts |
There are euro coin books. If you want something for coins pre-euro then each individual country will have its own book or books. But for all the countries you'd need either a large book, or why not get a CD with all the coins on? Slightly lighter than many different books!!
Euro coins will be fun to collect in luxembourg I imagine, belgium, holland, germany and france will be represented a lot, but then you have the travel money, especially in holiday season from now till the end of the summer, greece, portugal, spain, perhaps cyprus will all flow over, and then you get the odds and ends that appear too.
But if you intend to travel you'll find loads. With euros you want to watch out for the €2 commemoratives, there are loads!
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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Sure, there are quite a few books/catalogs about euro coins; probably not in English though. In German for example there is the Schön euro catalog. It is paperback style, but since it includes all the collector coins too (regional issues, not intended for circulation), it now has more than 800 pages. There is also a catalog which covers all the €2 coins, commemorative or not, but no other pieces. If you want to get an overview of what circulates here, have a look at these pages (English version): http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance...index_en.htm... specifically the "Common sides", National sides" and "Commemorative coins" sections (menu on the left). Christian |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
850 Posts |
Since it seems like some of you have been to Europe I have a question. How is their banking system? any special things I need to know?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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More than that, some of us actually live here, :)
It's a difficult question to answer because each country will be different. There is some commonality between the Euro using countries but certainly the UK is different from the others in terms of the ability to transfer fins via bank to bank transfer.
I'm not really clear what you mean by "how is their banking system" A bank is a bank - you deposit money and they make interest on it - you borrow money from them and they charge you intrest on that too.
Edited by Bacchus2
04/03/2011 12:09 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
850 Posts |
Can you walk in and hand them a 100 euro note and ask for a roll of two euro coins? Also how much does a roll hold of each denomination. Thanks
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2889 Posts |
I don't know about other countries but there is no such thing as a "roll" in the UK - at least not in my part. You could ask for bags of change but if it's a lot you may have to pre-order it. Some might charge you if you use this service a lot as they will assume you are a business.
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
1238 Posts |
Basically the same in Europe (euro area), except that most euro countries do use rolls. As for making payments, there are those things called credit cards :) Keep in mind that, if you have a card without a chip (stripe only), it may not always work here. Also, debit cards are somewhat more common. In most euro countries, checks have practically been extinct for quite a while; we use transfers or direct debit instead. Transfers are easy within the euro area; to other countries they tend to be more expensive. As for those €100 notes, large denominations are not used much anyway. A hundred may or may not be OK, but don't try to buy a candy bar with a €200 or €500 note, hehe. Also, in FI and NL the two small denominations (1 cent and 2 cent) are hardly ever used since cash totals are usually rounded to multiples of five. May make sense, by the way, to have a look at sites such as https://www.expatica.com - what a local may find perfectly normal, may be considered odd by people from elsewhere ... Christian Edited by chrisild
04/03/2011 4:25 pm
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France
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Actually chips are not a "must have" everywhere, they are used to the plain magnetic strips in most places (tourists, american express cards and so on).
For security reasons, the magnetic strip is still used when you withdraw money anyway, with your pin code.
I confirm we don't use much credit card here, actually credit has a bad reputation - which the current crisis made worse ("small" credit usage lowered a lot in the last two years)
For rolls, they don't give them out easily if you are not a local shop owner - they don't want all coin collectors to com in and get cash to sort them out and give them back later ...
Reminds me Poland, where I wanted to get a complete pile of bank notes (those were of 500 sloties, a few cent each ...)
Except for germany, many places won't accept easily notes over 50 euros.
At least for france (I'm French), we use our debit card a lot (with sometime a monthly debit instead of immediate debit).
Do you have any particular question ?
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