New €5 note coming

Skerries · 11-01-2013 05:02PM #1

http://www.new-euro-banknotes.eu/Euro-banknotes/Euro-banknotes-7-1/THE-NEW-5

there's a link to compare them side by side, saving you having to check your pocket for a snot covered one
not that I did that *cough*

kneemos · 11-01-2013 05:04PM

Oh no there's not.

Recluse · 11-01-2013 05:04PM

What's wrong with the current one?

SunnyDub1 · 11-01-2013 05:05PM

clicked this link only to discover that there is a such thing as a €500 note:eek:

amazing... have never seen one before.

martingriff · 11-01-2013 05:06PM

Recluse wrote: »

What's wrong with the current one?

New security features maybe. It looks like all will be changes eventally by the look of the website

vicwatson · 11-01-2013 05:07PM

Why oh why?

Corruptedmorals · 11-01-2013 05:07PM

Recluse wrote: »

What's wrong with the current one?

This one is to increase the safety features and make fakes more obvious. They are the most common counterfeit note, because nobody checks them.

Corruptedmorals · 11-01-2013 05:10PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

clicked this link only to discover that there is a such thing as a €500 note:eek:

amazing... have never seen one before.

Its huge! You'd have a tough time fitting them in your average wallet. They seem to be common in foreign bureau de changes, anyone who ever paid with them in work were tourists. None of them seemed to cop that providing €400 odd change would not be instant. Pretty much nowhere takes them, hence rarity.

repsol · 11-01-2013 05:12PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

clicked this link only to discover that there is a such thing as a €500 note:eek:

amazing... have never seen one before.

Apparently a lot of them are in criminal hands because it is easier to hide or transport than smaller denominations.Most shops will not take them.

vicwatson · 11-01-2013 05:13PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

clicked this link only to discover that there is a such thing as a €500 note:eek:

amazing... have never seen one before.

Not distributed in Ireland - No demand as we are all broke

Ficheall · 11-01-2013 05:13PM

It doesn't bode terribly well for the new security features that they feel the need to emblazon the word "specimen" across the picture of the note...

munchkin_utd · 11-01-2013 05:14PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

clicked this link only to discover that there is a such thing as a €500 note:eek:

amazing... have never seen one before.

they were never printed in Ireland seeing as the country is (/was) in love with chequebooks but they still are legal tender

To be honest, even abroad anything over 100Euro is rare enough to see seeing as many shops wont accept the 200s and 500s, if anything simply to conserve their float as much as any security risk.

FatherLen · 11-01-2013 05:16PM

looks shit.

maximoose · 11-01-2013 05:16PM

repsol wrote: »

Apparently a lot of them are in criminal hands because it is easier to hide or transport than smaller denominations.Most shops will not take them.

Most shops here don't even take €100 notes

3DataModem · 11-01-2013 05:17PM

You see the big notes if you hang around gamblers.

squod · 11-01-2013 05:18PM

Probably don't have silver strips anymore. The metal could be worth more than the note shortly.

Interestingly a lot of 1c coins in the USA are worth 2c or more when melted down.

gurramok · 11-01-2013 05:19PM

Does it have anti-crumbling features to keep it smooth and flat? If not, its useless!;)

AnonoBoy · 11-01-2013 05:23PM

Are they going to finally put them back into ATMs?

My name is URL · 11-01-2013 05:24PM

The EU has more members than it did when the € was introduced so they have to update notes and coins accordingly, regardless of new security features.

kneemos · 11-01-2013 05:27PM

Corruptedmorals wrote: »

Its huge! You'd have a tough time fitting them in your average wallet. They seem to be common in foreign bureau de changes, anyone who ever paid with them in work were tourists. None of them seemed to cop that providing €400 odd change would not be instant. Pretty much nowhere takes them, hence rarity.

most won't even take the hundred euro note,so much for valid currency.

repsol · 11-01-2013 05:30PM

kneemos wrote: »

most won't even take the hundred euro note,so much for valid currency.

All that "legal tender" stuff is bull.Try spending Northern Irish or Scottish Sterling in England and see what reaction you get:D

dickwod1 · 11-01-2013 05:31PM

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

clicked this link only to discover that there is a such thing as a €500 note:eek:

amazing... have never seen one before.

I brought one (€500 note) on holidays with me before to Portugal, brought it to the bank there to change it and you'd swear I walked in with the Mona Lisa,
2 cashiers 1 bank manager and 2 security guards checking it/looking at it all at the same time!

c_man · 11-01-2013 05:33PM

Leaving aside its instability, the Euro is such crap money.

shanec1928 · 11-01-2013 05:35PM

c_man wrote: »

Leaving aside its instability, the Euro is such crap money.

have you never seen the Australian dollar? play money..

repsol · 11-01-2013 05:37PM

They should have replaced the 5 euro note with a coin larger than the 2 euro.

LivelineDipso · 11-01-2013 05:46PM

Shove it up your hole ECB.

I'll get excited and hopeful when it says "Punts" after the number 5 once again.

Sky King · 11-01-2013 06:04PM

I like it. My only reserve would be the big word specimen emblazoned across it. I think the notes would look much better without that, and it's kind of irrelevant really.

I might write to them.

maxfresh · 11-01-2013 06:22PM

I've never had a note bigger than a 50

would love a few of those 500's

MonkstownHoop · 11-01-2013 06:22PM

repsol wrote: »

They should have replaced the 5 euro note with a coin larger than the 2 euro.

no, i hate coins

ScumLord · 11-01-2013 06:24PM

Sky King wrote: »

I like it. My only reserve would be the big word specimen emblazoned across it. I think the notes would look much better without that, and it's kind of irrelevant really.

I might write to them.

Walter Specimen deserves as much recognition as anyone else. If it wasn't for him **** into that cup all those years ago we wouldn't have the modern medical marvels that we have today.

Capt'n Midnight · 11-01-2013 06:27PM

more info http://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/index.en.html

New €5 note coming

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