"Padraig Breathnach" wrote in message
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> "JPG" wrote:
>
>>As I was collecting my Euros from the bureau de change yesterday, the
>>cashier showed me a 500 Euro note (in a fetching shade of purple). It
>>occured to me that the highest denomination note issued by the Bank of
>>England is £50, and they are very rarely seen (except on racecourses,
>>not surprisingly).
>>
>>I wonder how many in the Euro zone have seen, let alone carried, a note
>>of such high value. Even in the US where $1000 bills supposedly exist,
>>very few are to be seen.
>>
> In Ireland, the highest denomination in general use is the ?50, and it
> is only very recently that I first even saw a ?100 note when an ATM in
> Vienna supplied me with some. We made sure that we used them all
> before we came home, because I am sure that Irish outlets are not
> familiar with them.
>
> When I use ATMs in France (which I do a lot) they often supply me with
> a wad of ?20s. While ?50s are not rare there, they seem relatively a
> lot less common than in Ireland.
>
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> PB
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I'm in Ireland also and agree the highest note in general use is the 50
euro. However where I work we deal in quite a lot of cash (people generally
paying over a few thousand a go) and it's very common to be paid with
500,200 and 100 notes (particularly the 500 and 100 more than 200 for some
reason). I do think though that most of these people have specifically taken
the money out of the bank in cash, rather than just having come by them
otherwise, and of course we lodge it straight back to the bank. Actually now
I think of it, I wonder how often the same few high denomination notes have
been through my office?
ATMs here generally issue 50s, if you want smaller notes the only way is to
withdraw "odd" amounts (90 to get 50 + 2X20 etc).
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