"red Book" Equivalence

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coincollector123 Pillar of the Community United States 850 Posts	Posted 04/03/2011 12:16 pm 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 Report this Post to the Staff
Bacchus2 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2880 Posts	Posted 04/03/2011 1:27 pm 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. My Papal States coin collection: https://diadumenian.com/Papal%20Sta...0States.html Medieval coins collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Europe.html Indian Rupee Collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Rupees.html Minor world Silver: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...20coins.html Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 04/03/2011 4:24 pm 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 â‚¬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 â‚¬200 or â‚¬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 Report this Post to the Staff
MathieuMa Pillar of the Community France 1591 Posts	Posted 04/03/2011 5:23 pm 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 ? Report this Post to the Staff
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