EuroZone residents: What's in your pocket?

Nochmals vielen Dank.

Ah, very good. That is precisely the current situation in the US. We have two mints, one serving the eastern half of the country, one serving the western half. 'Large' denominations (by this of course I mean the laughably low-valued, by global standards, $0.25) travel much more than $0.01 pieces. This is in fact an aspect of my anthropological inquiry.

 

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I don't see what you mean?

How does this contradict what I said about a hapny having more buying power locally in the UK in 1977 than £0.01 has locally in the UK today?

I never asked about the value of a pfennig in US$, I asked what it was worth in €'s

 

I'm a little late for this thread, but as chrisild said, small values don't travel a lot. As Spain is not in the middle of Europe and minted quantities are quite high here, I have less than 5% of foreign copper coins in my pocket.

We have bags for small values and rolls for the big ones.

 

Ándale (sorry, it’s something we say in US/Mexico)

¿Qué tal izotz? No lamentes la tardeza. ¿Cuántas monedas hay en una sola bolsita? ¿Está bién castellano?

Me guntan las monedas acuñandas con arboles.


[Translation: What's up izotz? Don't worry about being late. How many coin come in just one bag? Spanish okay?

I like coins with trees on them.]

 

Good Spanish!!! Maybe better than my English. :smile:
Nevertheless, I will post in English, so that everybody understands.

You can check those quantities on Spanish Bank official website (chart on page 51 )
http://www.bde.es/informes/be/euro/eurobe.pdf

This only applies to Spanish euro coins. There are different kind of bags (normal bags, big ones and containers) for the cents, and rolls for the 1 and 2 euro coins. The normal are the most common ones:
1 cent : 200 coins / bag
2 cent : 200 coins / bag
5 cent : 100 coins / bag
10 cent : 100 coins / bag
20 cent : 100 coins / bag
50 cent : 100 coins / bag
1 euro : 25 coins / roll
2 euro : 25 coins / roll
(I hope no error). You can get them personally at Spanish Bank offices.

If you like trees you will like 2007 Portugal coin (I suppose you know it) :


Not so pretty :




Regards.