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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 286869, member: 39&quot;]In Finland the 1 and 2 ct coins have never &quot;really&quot; been used. By the time the euro cash became legal tender, they already had rounding regulations, ie. when you pay cash, the total is rounded to x.y0 or x.y5, whatever is closest.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Netherlands started using a similar policy a little later. The legal situation is a little different; stores &quot;may&quot; round to 0/5 but have to state that (usually on a sticker/poster at the entrance or cash register). Nowadays there aren&#039;t many stores that do not round.</p><p><br /></p><p>Legally the 1 and 2 cent coins can of course still be used anywhere in the currency union, even in countries/places where cash totals are rounded. This way the rounding rules are decisions of the member states, not of the EU on the whole. If the Council one day decides that the 1 and 2 ct pieces should be taken out of circulation, that would be a different story.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know, Belgium may phase out (or reduce) the production of the two small pieces next. Germany on the other hand is a country of penny pinchers - we even had 1 Pf coins (worth half a cent) until late 2001. And doing away with the 1 and 2 ct coins would probably cause an uproar ... :headbang:</p><p><br /></p><p>As for your further questions, if you get &quot;fresh&quot; coin rolls from the national central bank (NCB; in DE that would be the Bundesbank), they are not mixed. All others, including &quot;re-packed&quot; NCB rolls - are. In most member states, rolls are common; some (Ireland, Spain?) use plastic bags. The standardized rolls have 50 coins in case of the &quot;copper&quot; pieces, 40 coins for the mid-range &quot;Nordic Gold&quot; pieces, and 25 for the bimetallic pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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