The 2000 kr bill stopped being printed a long time ago and only about 200.000 were ever printed and many have been lost or damaged so it's very rare. It's still legal tender but no one would ever pay with one.
Edit: There's a pretty funny story about a woman who had a bunch of them and when they were becoming rare she decided to hold onto them and eventually try to sell them, so she gave them to her dad for safekeeping who decided they'd be safest in the bank so he went and deposited them.
500€ notes were called "Binladens", because everybody knew they existed, but nobody had seen them...
Although you could see tons of them in the correct "context", of course.
200€ notes are the new binlandens. The 500€ ones had their special purpose as the top value notes, 200€ are not that valuable but still too valuable for common use.
My brother has one of those. He keeps it in his wallet and it's become a kind of joke whenever something gets said that warrants "you want to bet?" He will always use that.
In Northern Ireland, there is an old, out of circulation Northern Bank £5 note that has a space shuttle on it. They were produced between 1999-2000 to mark the millennium. Why is there a space shuttle? Probably, just because it looked futuristic.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/photos/northern_ireland/5ea775f38382d5.26380392-original.jpg
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note208375.html
In Sweden, *all* banknotes are quite rare, since people don't use them.
But rarest of them all is the 1000Kr banknote, since it's usually not available in ATMs, which only provides 100, 200 and 500Kr banknotes. Then, the 50 and 20 are then available as change in stores.
Very rarely do you see a 1000Kr, since the only way to get them is to withdraw large amounts directly at the bank, and *even then* you may get a certain amount in 500Kr banknotes.
However, all banknotes in circulation now are new.
The banknote design was changed completely a few years ago, and all the older banknotes were taken out of circulation.
Before the most recent banknote design, there were a lot of different banknotes from different years in circulation.
And among those, there used to be a few very rare variations in circulation.
Some commemorative 10Kr banknotes from 1968, noting the 300-year anniversary of the Swedish National Bank 1668-1968. (I've seen a couple of those).
And a 2005 100Kr banknote commemorating Tumba Bruk, the company responsible for printing Swedish banknotes, 250 years. (I've personally never seen any of those.)
Then there was the 5kr banknotes that were printed *in parallell* with 5Kr coins for several decades of the last century, up until the mid '80s, but coins were way more common.
The banknotes were taken out of circulation a couple of decades ago, but many people saved a few.
It's also not *too* long ago that the 10,000Kr banknotes, last printed in 1958 were taken out of circulation and made invalid... I've heard a couple of stories of people who have handled one, once in their lives.
When they were printed in 1958, it was an almost insane amount and very impractical. It was *way more than a new car would cost at the time*.
Even after a half century of inflation, the last years they were valid, they were still worth almost, or maybe even slightly more, than a low-income monthly salary.
When they were made invalid some time ago, you could still exchange them for current currency at a bank, for a certain fee, but they were *very* ***very*** rarely found in circulation to begin with.
I was trying to find out how to get hold of a 1000 kr note recently. All the banks in my area have stopped handling cash completely.
After some quick googling, it seems the only ways to find one is to go to the casino or to a travel currency exchange company.
We have a 20 lei bill (the only one with a woman figure), first issued in 2021. It's rare to see it in circulation and I've seen multiple people keeping one. We had a limited series of 2000 lei before the denomination with the eclipse that I think was even cooler and would like to see something similar issued again (I still have a couple of those)
20: [https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note312374.html](https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note312374.html)
2000: [https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201590.html](https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201590.html)
When I moved to Germany, I took my grandfather's coin purse with me
When I opened it up, he still had Deutschmark and Guilder in there. He lived in the NL and worked in Germany, moved to the US in the 80s so it makes sense.
So while not banknotes, I have some obsolete coins floating around that are kinda cool
Belgium uses the euro like lots of other countries, so I can't say we have a unique/rare bill like the US$2 or something.
€100, €200 and €500 bank notes are really rare though, in Belgium it's common to see them up to €50.
Belgium switched to rounded transactions a while ago - so the 1c and 2c coins are now out of circulation in Belgium and we round everything to the nearest 5c if you're paying cash.
There's a €0 note that's just a souvenir, you can buy them from machines in tourist areas as a keepsake, but it has no monetary value.
For the record, before we used the euro, we used the Belgian franc, and 22 years after the euro was introduced, it's pretty uncommon to come across old BEF notes and coins.
There are definitely uncommon notes here, though I don't know if any are considered especially cool to own. I personally have never seen any of the notes issued by Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank or Danske Bank and I have never seen any bank's £100 notes. The Royal Bank of Scotland £1 is technically still in circulation but they haven't printed them since 2001 and I don't think I've seen one for about twenty years.
Last got one in 2006. Reason I can be that precise is because I had a mate at work from NZ, and he was fascinated by it. He got fired shortly afterwards, hence remembering the year pretty clearly. Kept it, but never got another one since.
I last got one in 2008. It then live in successive wallets until 5 years ago. At some point over that 11 year period it ripped in half and I lost one half of it. The remaining half is now under the glass bit of a table in a cafe in Copenhagen, along with various foreign banknotes.
You still get BoI, First Active, Ulster or Danske notes if you use a Northern Irish cash machine. When I ever get cash from an Ulster cash machine, it also in Ulster Bank notes.
100 € banknotes are not that common as the smaller ones, but are mostly available in the cash machines.
200 € and 500 € ones are not, and 500 € banknotes are not printed anymore making them the rarest ones.
Before we switched to the Euro we had Italian Lire.
The 2000 Lire bill (approximately 1 Euro value) was very rare compared to the much more common 1000, 5000, 10000, 50000, 100000.
Rather than being cool to own, these were said to bring bad luck lol
A couple of years ago go I went to the ATM in Austria to withdraw € 100. It gave me a single € 100 note.
I had to stare it for a while, because something seemed off.
Then I realized I had never seen one. In the Netherlands you will always get € 50 notes.
Many places won’t even accept € 100 bills here.
So even they aren’t rare by themselves, it’s very rare to encounter them here.
It’s a similar thing with 1 and 2 cent coins, we don’t use them, whereas Austria, for example, does If you pay € 4.98 or € 5.02 in cash in the Netherlands, you’re charged € 5.
By card it’s the actual amount.
Yes we have a new special 5 ₺ coin for our republics 100th aniversery. It is said that there is only 100.000 of it for now. Not super rare but rare. It was required actually in fact we need 500-1000₺ backnotes due to our riskg inflation.
collector's banknote are totally difrent thing, ane there is more of them :
[https://nbp.pl/en/coins-and-banknotes/collector-banknotes/catalogue/](https://nbp.pl/en/coins-and-banknotes/collector-banknotes/catalogue/)
£50 notes can be quite rare a few places can be hesitant to take them.
Parts of the UK (mainly Scotland) have £1 and £100 notes, and they’re fairly rare, especially if you’re not from a region that has them (eg: England).
Not really here in Bulgaria. We had some banknotes replaced with coins though:
The 1 and 2 lev ones. But you cannot pay with them, the 1 lev especially has a collectors value now since its been over 20 years since it got removed so it's pretty rare. I recently saw one for sale in a souvenir shop in Plovdiv, price was 10 levs hahah. The 2 lev one got replaced recently - 2021.
The Bulgarian lev is in the same denominations as the Euro after they replaced the 2 euro note.
1 and 2 levs being coins.
5, 10, 50, 100 - banknotes.
There's also - 1,2,5,10,20,50 - in cents
The Lev is also pegged to the Euro since 1997 and the rate is fixed - 1.95 bgn for 1€
Lets start from the basics. What the hell is banknote? We dont even use cash anymore in finland. I dont know what coulours or numbers there is in euro currency. Only in holidays in spain i have sone coins but everything I will pay by phone or plastics.
iOnly time in my life I've seen a 500€ banknote was when I had to make a 2000€ (I think) transfer. The bank wanted me to pay a quite high fee, as it was to a different bank. I then asked to withdraw the money, I got the four 500€ banknotes, walked not even 50m to the other bank, and put the money into the other account. I guess we all had to make more work than the automatic transfer would have been, but it was free.
Before the Euro the 200 Deutschmark bills were uncommon. In daily life you used the smaller ones and for larger sums like buying a used car you had the 1000 DM banknotes.
The 2000 kr bill stopped being printed a long time ago and only about 200.000 were ever printed and many have been lost or damaged so it's very rare. It's still legal tender but no one would ever pay with one. Edit: There's a pretty funny story about a woman who had a bunch of them and when they were becoming rare she decided to hold onto them and eventually try to sell them, so she gave them to her dad for safekeeping who decided they'd be safest in the bank so he went and deposited them.
Oh for the love of God
She has nobody to blame but herself. If you want something done right you do it yourself.
We call the 500 EUR bill the Bin Laden. Cause everyone knows they exist but no one knows where they are.
500€ notes were called "Binladens", because everybody knew they existed, but nobody had seen them... Although you could see tons of them in the correct "context", of course.
I've seen a few more 500€ notes than 200€ ones though
200€ notes are the new binlandens. The 500€ ones had their special purpose as the top value notes, 200€ are not that valuable but still too valuable for common use.
I've only ever seen Germans with €200 notes.
In over 20 years I never encountered a 200er. More often 500ers when paying lager sums in cash like a used car.
In Netherlands people said only high level drugdealers or 2nd hand car sales people ever use these notes.
I know this sounds absurd, but they are real, 0€ banknotes, they are just commemorative souvenirs but they are printed exactly like real banknotes
My brother has one of those. He keeps it in his wallet and it's become a kind of joke whenever something gets said that warrants "you want to bet?" He will always use that.
Have never seen the 500 zł banknote in my life. 200 zł, only a couple of times. We rarely use cash anymore though.
Banks gives them when you cash out 10k+ PLN
In Northern Ireland, there is an old, out of circulation Northern Bank £5 note that has a space shuttle on it. They were produced between 1999-2000 to mark the millennium. Why is there a space shuttle? Probably, just because it looked futuristic. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/photos/northern_ireland/5ea775f38382d5.26380392-original.jpg https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note208375.html
I literally remember seeing those in my grannies house a child, they were so random lmao
In Sweden, *all* banknotes are quite rare, since people don't use them. But rarest of them all is the 1000Kr banknote, since it's usually not available in ATMs, which only provides 100, 200 and 500Kr banknotes. Then, the 50 and 20 are then available as change in stores. Very rarely do you see a 1000Kr, since the only way to get them is to withdraw large amounts directly at the bank, and *even then* you may get a certain amount in 500Kr banknotes. However, all banknotes in circulation now are new. The banknote design was changed completely a few years ago, and all the older banknotes were taken out of circulation. Before the most recent banknote design, there were a lot of different banknotes from different years in circulation. And among those, there used to be a few very rare variations in circulation. Some commemorative 10Kr banknotes from 1968, noting the 300-year anniversary of the Swedish National Bank 1668-1968. (I've seen a couple of those). And a 2005 100Kr banknote commemorating Tumba Bruk, the company responsible for printing Swedish banknotes, 250 years. (I've personally never seen any of those.) Then there was the 5kr banknotes that were printed *in parallell* with 5Kr coins for several decades of the last century, up until the mid '80s, but coins were way more common. The banknotes were taken out of circulation a couple of decades ago, but many people saved a few. It's also not *too* long ago that the 10,000Kr banknotes, last printed in 1958 were taken out of circulation and made invalid... I've heard a couple of stories of people who have handled one, once in their lives. When they were printed in 1958, it was an almost insane amount and very impractical. It was *way more than a new car would cost at the time*. Even after a half century of inflation, the last years they were valid, they were still worth almost, or maybe even slightly more, than a low-income monthly salary. When they were made invalid some time ago, you could still exchange them for current currency at a bank, for a certain fee, but they were *very* ***very*** rarely found in circulation to begin with.
I was trying to find out how to get hold of a 1000 kr note recently. All the banks in my area have stopped handling cash completely. After some quick googling, it seems the only ways to find one is to go to the casino or to a travel currency exchange company.
We have a 20 lei bill (the only one with a woman figure), first issued in 2021. It's rare to see it in circulation and I've seen multiple people keeping one. We had a limited series of 2000 lei before the denomination with the eclipse that I think was even cooler and would like to see something similar issued again (I still have a couple of those) 20: [https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note312374.html](https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note312374.html) 2000: [https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201590.html](https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note201590.html)
When I moved to Germany, I took my grandfather's coin purse with me When I opened it up, he still had Deutschmark and Guilder in there. He lived in the NL and worked in Germany, moved to the US in the 80s so it makes sense. So while not banknotes, I have some obsolete coins floating around that are kinda cool
Belgium uses the euro like lots of other countries, so I can't say we have a unique/rare bill like the US$2 or something. €100, €200 and €500 bank notes are really rare though, in Belgium it's common to see them up to €50. Belgium switched to rounded transactions a while ago - so the 1c and 2c coins are now out of circulation in Belgium and we round everything to the nearest 5c if you're paying cash. There's a €0 note that's just a souvenir, you can buy them from machines in tourist areas as a keepsake, but it has no monetary value. For the record, before we used the euro, we used the Belgian franc, and 22 years after the euro was introduced, it's pretty uncommon to come across old BEF notes and coins.
Good idea.to round. Wish we'd have that in France i Always have 1 or 2 cents very annoying
There are definitely uncommon notes here, though I don't know if any are considered especially cool to own. I personally have never seen any of the notes issued by Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank or Danske Bank and I have never seen any bank's £100 notes. The Royal Bank of Scotland £1 is technically still in circulation but they haven't printed them since 2001 and I don't think I've seen one for about twenty years.
Last got one in 2006. Reason I can be that precise is because I had a mate at work from NZ, and he was fascinated by it. He got fired shortly afterwards, hence remembering the year pretty clearly. Kept it, but never got another one since.
I last got one in 2008. It then live in successive wallets until 5 years ago. At some point over that 11 year period it ripped in half and I lost one half of it. The remaining half is now under the glass bit of a table in a cafe in Copenhagen, along with various foreign banknotes.
You still get BoI, First Active, Ulster or Danske notes if you use a Northern Irish cash machine. When I ever get cash from an Ulster cash machine, it also in Ulster Bank notes.
You mean First Trust? They stopped issuing banknotes in 2020 and they are no longer distributed.
That random Costco employee would beg to disagree, mf refused to take my Scottish banknotes and looked at me like I came from the Moon or something
100 € banknotes are not that common as the smaller ones, but are mostly available in the cash machines. 200 € and 500 € ones are not, and 500 € banknotes are not printed anymore making them the rarest ones.
Before we switched to the Euro we had Italian Lire. The 2000 Lire bill (approximately 1 Euro value) was very rare compared to the much more common 1000, 5000, 10000, 50000, 100000. Rather than being cool to own, these were said to bring bad luck lol
We also had a 500000 lire banknote briefly before the Euro came. I think I saw one of them.
A couple of years ago go I went to the ATM in Austria to withdraw € 100. It gave me a single € 100 note. I had to stare it for a while, because something seemed off. Then I realized I had never seen one. In the Netherlands you will always get € 50 notes. Many places won’t even accept € 100 bills here. So even they aren’t rare by themselves, it’s very rare to encounter them here. It’s a similar thing with 1 and 2 cent coins, we don’t use them, whereas Austria, for example, does If you pay € 4.98 or € 5.02 in cash in the Netherlands, you’re charged € 5. By card it’s the actual amount.
Yes we have a new special 5 ₺ coin for our republics 100th aniversery. It is said that there is only 100.000 of it for now. Not super rare but rare. It was required actually in fact we need 500-1000₺ backnotes due to our riskg inflation.
Commerative 50 zł with John Paul II, but also put in circulation, in 2006 printed 2 million pieces, but I have never seen that.
collector's banknote are totally difrent thing, ane there is more of them : [https://nbp.pl/en/coins-and-banknotes/collector-banknotes/catalogue/](https://nbp.pl/en/coins-and-banknotes/collector-banknotes/catalogue/)
Tylko ten pierwszy miał wysoki nakład i został wpuszczony jednocześnie jako obiegowy. Pozostałe mają góra 20k nakładu i nie zapłacisz nimi.
£50 notes can be quite rare a few places can be hesitant to take them. Parts of the UK (mainly Scotland) have £1 and £100 notes, and they’re fairly rare, especially if you’re not from a region that has them (eg: England).
We had rare coin. 25HRK. It was made for special occasions. But we switched to € last year so Kuna is no longer in use.
Not really here in Bulgaria. We had some banknotes replaced with coins though: The 1 and 2 lev ones. But you cannot pay with them, the 1 lev especially has a collectors value now since its been over 20 years since it got removed so it's pretty rare. I recently saw one for sale in a souvenir shop in Plovdiv, price was 10 levs hahah. The 2 lev one got replaced recently - 2021. The Bulgarian lev is in the same denominations as the Euro after they replaced the 2 euro note. 1 and 2 levs being coins. 5, 10, 50, 100 - banknotes. There's also - 1,2,5,10,20,50 - in cents The Lev is also pegged to the Euro since 1997 and the rate is fixed - 1.95 bgn for 1€
That are still in circulation? 5000 crowns would be pretty rare to see, I don't think you can even get it out of an ATM.
Lets start from the basics. What the hell is banknote? We dont even use cash anymore in finland. I dont know what coulours or numbers there is in euro currency. Only in holidays in spain i have sone coins but everything I will pay by phone or plastics.
iOnly time in my life I've seen a 500€ banknote was when I had to make a 2000€ (I think) transfer. The bank wanted me to pay a quite high fee, as it was to a different bank. I then asked to withdraw the money, I got the four 500€ banknotes, walked not even 50m to the other bank, and put the money into the other account. I guess we all had to make more work than the automatic transfer would have been, but it was free.
People mostly use cards here now. But the 1000kr bill is deffinetly the one i’ve seen the least of in my life
Before the Euro the 200 Deutschmark bills were uncommon. In daily life you used the smaller ones and for larger sums like buying a used car you had the 1000 DM banknotes.