EU 500 Note

fulanoquetal

Anyone happen to know if it is possible to get a Eu500 note somewhere in town ?

Grab All Association

They are still legal tender, but it was difficult to get them before they stopped printing them. I imagine you’ll need to go to Dublin

DukeCaboom

It was ten years ago the last time I'd to get them. I rang the bank and ordered them.

MAULBROOK

A few years ago my brother paid me back money he owed me, all in €500 notes. You should of seen the girl in Tesco when I handed one over for a €40 shop. I felt like they where going to call the Gards.

Nigel Fairservice

One of the larger bank branches in town may have some. We seem to have an aversion to notes over €50.

yenom

I think the ECB stopped printing them?

Nigel Fairservice

yenom wrote: »

I think the ECB stopped printing them?

Printing of new ones has stopped but the ones in circulation are still legal tender.

secman

I once sold a car for €4,500 back in 2003, the guy was in Insurance and his wife a doctor, they paid me with 9 €500 notes, very weird at the time. Had to change one of them in a rural pub one night, gas episode all together

DukeCaboom

secman wrote: »

I once sold a car for €4,500 back in 2003, the guy was in Insurance and his wife a doctor, they paid me with 9 €500 notes, very weird at the time. Had to change one of them in a rural pub one night, gas episode all together

I remember here there used to be a lad go to local gaa matches a try to pay at the gate with a €500 note, tell them he'd nothing smaller and they'd usually let him in for free.

antix80

DukeCaboom wrote: »

I remember here there used to be a lad go to local gaa matches a try to pay at the gate with a €500 note, tell them he'd nothing smaller and they'd usually let him in for free.

Sounds like that film The Million Pound Note except in ireland and on a smaller scale

Darc19

EU have stopped issuing them to and banks don't give them out either.

As they come in they are sent for destruction.

Just on the legal tender. No business has an obligation to accept any notes whatsoever unless a debt has already occurred and the payment is in settlement of that debt

For such debt to occur, the business must have an account in the name of the debtor.

So anyone who thinks "legal tender" allows them flash a large note and hope to get something free is badly mistaken

rob316

€500? You'd barely see a €100 note these days

L1011

rob316 wrote: »

€500? You'd barely see a €100 note these days

Can barely shift one either.

Got a 200 once and Tesco eventually took it after getting a manager down to decide - should have lodged it. Only 500 I've seen in the flesh was a fake, warned the place that took it that it was a fake and all - someone 'paid' for a 50 quid doctors visit it with and got 450 in real money in change.

rob316

L1011 wrote: »

Can barely shift one either.

Got a 200 once and Tesco eventually took it after getting a manager down to decide - should have lodged it. Only 500 I've seen in the flesh was a fake, warned the place that took it that it was a fake and all - someone 'paid' for a 50 quid doctors visit it with and got 450 in real money in change.

That amount of money in once piece of paper is too much, we've all lost cash in the past, you'll live over €50 even but imagine losing €500 note.,

Nigel Fairservice

rob316 wrote: »

€500? You'd barely see a €100 note these days

I'd very rarely see a €100 in ireland. They seem more common on the continent and businesses don't seem as reluctant to take them. I got a few out of ATMs on the continent over the years but I think ATM machines here don't stock them. We did have an old £100 (Parnell was on the back of it) but I only ever saw one in circulation once (an uncirculated one can fetch hundreds of euro these days). I don't think the £100 note was very common so it may explain our attitude to larger notes. Some uncirculated Irish €100 notes with the letter T can sell for more than face value.

L1011 wrote: »

Can barely shift one either.

Got a 200 once and Tesco eventually took it after getting a manager down to decide - should have lodged it. Only 500 I've seen in the flesh was a fake, warned the place that took it that it was a fake and all - someone 'paid' for a 50 quid doctors visit it with and got 450 in real money in change.

A friend of mine got €1500 from her grandparents in €500 notes as a present. She was living in the UK but her grandparents were in France. None of her local banks in the UK would change the notes to Sterling for her. She brought them with her on a visit to Ireland and I was able to lodge them in my Ulster Bank account and send her the money on Revolut. Even my bank were semi reluctant to take them but agreed as I was a longstanding customer. I'm sure they checked out their authenticity as well before agreeing to lodge them.

Brussels Sprout

I only ever saw a €500 and a €200 once and that was not soon after we switched currencies. My father needed to get €800 from the bank and they gave it to him in three notes, for some reason.

Tabnabs

Worth more than the legal tender value if you can get your hands on one.

https://www.ebay.ie/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=500+euro+note&_sacat=0

punisher5112

Got attacked years ago, guy offered compensation so got away with a warning, the Garda rang me to say I had to come down and sign for it, he took out an envelope, opened it up and counted out 3 €500 notes brand new, not a crease....

The face on him handing it over....

Had a few after that few €200 and €100 but last time I seen any has been a very long time.

Found a €100 note all scrunched up in a toilet.

leahyl

Was working in Dunnes about 18 years ago now and a guy came in one day and was buying a few items of clothing and produced a 500e note - I freaked out, but the manager said I could accept it anyway…I was just worried I’d give back the wrong change and to this day I’m convinced I did!

MissShihTzu

100, 200 and 500 euro notes are like trying to change a £50 in the UK. Nobody will take them!

I was going home to the UK one year. Went to the PO in Shandon St (now closed). Fella tried to give me my sterling in £50 notes. I pushed them back over the counter and asked if he was trying to get me arrested!! You can't pass a £50 note in London!

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117609889#Comment_117609889

No problem " passing" £50s in London or anywhere in the UK.Anyone on here got £50's to get "rid" of I'll take them and give you £40 or £35 change.We can negotiate my fee.Cornershops take them,bars take them,supermarkets take them.An Post wouldn't do much foreign exchange business if people refused to take £50's for their hard earned Euros

beachhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058197296/eu-500-note

The EU began withdrawing e500 a long time when they realised the criminal fraternity worldwide loved them.Very few ever made it into general circulation.A suitcase of e500 is a lot easier to carry than the same value in US $.The Shelbourne or 4Seasons in Dublin might have one or two in the till

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118072942#Comment_118072942

£50s are quite uncommon in the UK though. Yes places will take them but often people were very nervous handling them and would clear it with a manager. Places I worked would never ever have 20s in the till at the start of the day and not many 10s so a few 50s became a problem pretty quick on the rare occasion it happened

tdf7187

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118072973#Comment_118072973

I'm pretty sure lap dancing joints and casinos in London take them. A fella told me that.

MissShihTzu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118072942#Comment_118072942

Londoner born and bred here. I repeat - you can't pass a £50 note anywhere here. Not without a great deal of hassle! Most shops won't take them. Marks & Spencer will, but only if you call a manager or a supervisor to verify the note (Personal experience as I used to work for them). Not worth the agg, so I refuse the £50's if offered to me here. Come to that, I don't bother getting sterling here as the rates are crap, so usually just draw from my sterling account if I need cash when home.

MissShihTzu

Even Scottish banknotes induce panic in London, even though they're legal tender south of the border!😉

AugustusMinimus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118077611#Comment_118077611

No they’re not. They’re not even legal tender in Scotland. Bank of England notes are the only legal tender in the UK.

Those Scottish and NI notes are considered to be legal “currency”. They do not have to be accepted by anyone in the UK in settlement of a debt.

Those Scottish and NI notes are simply pegged to the Sterling and the banks who issue them make a commitment to the holder of exchanging them for real Bank of England notes. If I lived in England I wouldn’t accept them either.

AugustusMinimus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117558583#Comment_117558583

No where does it say you need to have an account for a debt to occur. I’m happy to be proven wrong if you can show me something in Irish legislation or case law which says otherwise.

Let’s take the case where you go for a meal. If you try to pay with a €500 note it’s too late for them to refuse your custom. You don’t have an account with the restaurant either.

Not sure what you mean in your last paragraph either.

the beer revolu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118078303#Comment_118078303

Actually, it turns out that Bank of England notes aren't legal tender in Scotland, either - only coins are legal tender.