Posted 12/28/2010 9:04 pm
As a general rule, no, central banks and other note issuing authorities don't have online ordering for their banknotes. The Reserve bank of Australia, for instance, only has walk-in sales booths in Sydney and Canberra. If you want to buy "direct from the source", you've got to visit in person.
Most of Europe uses the euro. The European Central Bank doesn't have any sales department for either coins or notes, leaving it up to the banks of individual member states, and those banks don't sell euro notes because there isn't really much to sell, from a national perspective, since apart from the serial number prefix there's no difference in euro notes between issues of different countries.
I suspect the main obstacle to government bodies mailing banknotes out to people is that those same governments usually have anti-money-laundering laws in place prohibiting the sending of banknotes through the mail, especially to foreign destinations.
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If you know of any European national banks that sell online to the public please let me know.
If you know of any European national banks that sell online to the public please let me know.
Most of Europe uses the euro. The European Central Bank doesn't have any sales department for either coins or notes, leaving it up to the banks of individual member states, and those banks don't sell euro notes because there isn't really much to sell, from a national perspective, since apart from the serial number prefix there's no difference in euro notes between issues of different countries.
I suspect the main obstacle to government bodies mailing banknotes out to people is that those same governments usually have anti-money-laundering laws in place prohibiting the sending of banknotes through the mail, especially to foreign destinations.
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