Some small value Euro currency being withdrawn from today

Apologies if this is in wrong forum or thread.
Hopefully this is a "heads up" (no pun intended).
i literally found out from a local TV news bulletin today that Irish 1cent and 2 cent coins are being withdrawn from today.
They will remain legal tender but will not be given out as change so will disappear over a short period of time.
I feel quite lucky because I have accumulated about €3 worth of small change from monthly visits to Dublin.

John

 

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We've been discussing this for a while. Basically Ireland follows the examples of Finland, the Netherlands and Belgium. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cash-totals-to-be-rounded-in-ireland.265163/

Christian

 

Indeed.
I must emphasise that I am a Stamp Collector who dabbles in Coins.
It has not been possible to use these coins in some vending machines etc ....so it is inevitable that they would disappear.
For someone like myself who always arrives home from Dublin with too much small change and puts them in a box...it is a wake up call to sort them.
As a general rule, I have one or two 1cents and 2cents from every year from 2002 so it is at least an incentive for me to look thru the "unsorted box".

 

I've got a bunch of low face Euro coins AND a catalog that lists the varieties.
I started a while back trying to ID the varieties that I have but put the task on the back burner when other things became more important/interesting.
This will be a job for days during the winter when we get snowed in.

 

Like counting grass blades...

 

These days most places have lower value coins in relative spending power than they have had in centuries. The US half cent in the 19th century would be able to purchase what a quarter would today - so I am not sure we really need to waste time making low value coins - even the dime is pretty useless.