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[โ€“] moistclump@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TIL, Iโ€™m older than euros.

[โ€“] stoy@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I remember when they were adopted...

[โ€“] bob_lemon@feddit.de 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

1,95583 is permanently embedded in my brain. It's the conversation rate from โ‚ฌ to DM when it was introduced.

[โ€“] ECB@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] bob_lemon@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Haha, nice. Also, username checks out.

[โ€“] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago

1โ‚ฌ = 6,55957F ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ต

[โ€“] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you get a starter kit?

[โ€“] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago

Nah, I am a Swede, we still use the SEK

[โ€“] daniskarma@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I remember these little sample bags with all the different coins.

I still have some of those saved somewhere.

Also the plastic cards that you tilted and showed a value in โ‚ฌ and pts (our old currency).

[โ€“] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I went to Europe in the summer of '99. I still had to get my bank to get me all of the currencies for those countries prior to going and don't recall having seen Euros at all at that point.

[โ€“] federalreverse@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The Euro as a currency was introduced in 1999 and at that point was only used for banks/institutions to interact with each other. Euro notes and coins were only introduced in 2002.

Ah, yeah; that'd explain it. I am kinda glad I got to see all the different countries' notes and coins. It was a bit of a pain-in-the-ass, though, when a Swiss ATM decided my US ATM card looked delicious. Last leg of the trip was pretty rough without the ability to get cash.