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On the 1st of January 2002, the following countries switched to the EURO as their new currency:
They were joined in 2007 by SLOVENIA
These 12 countries are known as the 'eurozone'. Britain has no plans to join as yet. Other countries of EU not included are Denmark and Sweden. Old currencies will still be legal tender until the end of February.
Euro is currently worth about 69p (January 2006) - symbol is on most modern keyboards: hold down ALT Gr, and press 4 to get
€
Euros will also be able to be used in certain stores in Britain: branches of Dixons, Virgin, Selfridges and Marks and Spencer.
If you're doing some work on the Euro, or Europe, I bought some 'toy money' Euros from a toy shop in Cambridge recently. Good for display purposes or I suppose they could be used as rewards. You could stamp on the back with an inked stamp and have it as some sort of merit. We are thinking of having a day when we link with the languages department as we study Europe and they teach French, Spanish and German and we could use Euro notes for some purpose then.
How long before some of these countries go back to their own currency ?
www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/euroleafleten.pdf - a PDF documents which shows notes and coins nicely..