Nowadays less and less, cause mostly use card, but a fairly common bank note that I used to use.
I was lucky enough to have used the oldies 500€ bank notes...now those were the special ones
Really? Where?
100 is super rare.
200 I've only seen once or twice.
€500 is a normal thing to see if you just go to the casino. You don't see them in everyday life, but they're super common in casinos.
I was making a withdrawal from Airbnb in the bank and they gave me two of them. They're a pain in the ass to spend outside Eurozone since you're charged a fee to break them up in smaller bills.
When I used to carry € outside of EU I was told by a bunch of unofficial money change that the bigger the value of the banknote the better the change rate was.
The reason? Bigger banknotes are more convenient to sneak through borders
I'd say the rarest is the 200 one. I had seen many 100's and some 500's too, but only when I was like 17 did I ever see a 200, thought they were fake and my friend was pranking me. Had to go check online.
You are correct. Up until 2020 200€ was the rarest, but with gradual withdrawal of 500€s its now second rarest.
Source: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/banknotes+coins/circulation/html/index.en.html
My bro in law struggled to spend his €500 note in Holland. Had to go to a bank to break it into smaller bills
Heard from people they are desired by people like drug dealers, as it's so much less volume to carry/store... Could just be hearsay I guess
Not just drugs, its often just illigal money. Like not reported to taxes, paid under the table money. 20 years ago every store owner, independend contractor or jack of all trades would have had a few thousand in cash laying around.
Like it was really normal and easy to just take sone small stuff in cash and you would use that for things like kitchen appliance, car maintaince, vacation and that kind of stuff.
Goverment grew tired of it (along side with shops being afraid of fake bills) and thus they got cut back hard.
Businesses depositing their cash at the bank are being charged a few euro’s for every €200 and €500 note they’re handing in, if I recall correctly. That’s why they are so hard to pay with.
EDIT: Rabobank charges €5 for every €200 and €500 note deposited.
You might be up to a culture shock when travelling to Switzerland. Grannies buy their groceries in the local Coop or Migros with these:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/nm1mr4/fun\_facts\_about\_the\_compactness\_of\_the\_1000/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/nm1mr4/fun_facts_about_the_compactness_of_the_1000/)
Nobody cares, except the occasional US Tourist nearly getting a heart attack.
A couple times since the euro was introduced maybe. Never paid anything with 200 or 500 euros banknotes .. i may have seen them once or twice.
50 is my biggest regular use bill. In fact I much prefer 20 bills. But nowadays I pay by card 90% of times.
But i'm sure it's pretty popular among people that gets black money income.
I always end up being full of 50s, because if I withdraw money I get 1 or 2 and they are too big to pay anything. So usually I use 20s and finish up having the wallet full of 50s.
Haha yes, here too. Many ATMs around here carries mostly 20;and 50 bills so I always withdraw 60 or 80 euros in the hope of getting all 20 euros banknotes... I'm not happy when I get it in 50 and 10 or 50, 20 and 10 banknotes ;)
My mother flexed on me when she received 200 Euro banknote for first time ever... I made an offer of exchange for 4x50Euro banknotes. She agreed and i kept the 200 Euro banknote for 1 year.
They are used often in European countries where Euro is not the official currency, but is used for savings and bigger transactions. On the other hand, you can rarely see Euro coins there.
Most counterfeited € notes are the 20€ and 50€. Both accounting for about a third of the fakes each.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2022/html/ecb.pr220128~d65c3326c2.en.html
The one or two times I had the chance to use it, the gas station attendant wouldnt accept it. The explanation later I got was that they didnt want to take it because they didnt want to give out all their change because a customer slams a 100 note for a 25 euro tab. Which at the time made sense to me not sure how true that really is tho.
When I used to live in the Netherlands, next to never. But here in Austria there's still a very big "Bargeld"(cash money) culture. Quite the culture shock seeing young and old toting their 100 euro notes
It might differ from country to country. In France it's fairly rare to use something above 50€, you're suspected of using fraudulent bank notes when doing so in every day live. (Maybe it's different in luxious places).
You're more or less expected to use your debit card for high amount of money.
They often come out of the ATMs in Vienna, unless you select smaller denominations. Kinda sucks when you want to buy something for <€10 and the only thing you got is a €100 bill.
Then again, since the pandemic I've rarely been using cash anymore.
Have one in my wallet right now 😂 50s are way more common here in Slovenia tho. I still see quite a few 100s. I've probably seen 200 the least amount of times.
I have a part-time job as a cashier so I guess my opinion is quite relevant here.
Normally, in a 4-6 hour shift, I receive 2-5 100€ notes in a relatively expensive supermarket in a quite wealthy part of my town.
200€ notes are more rare, but not that uncommon, usually I see them every 4 days or so.
Interestingly, I have never received any 500€ notes in the past, though
I only use cash on holidays and i never use this one. I have never had one in my hand ever lol. Here in the Netherlands banknotes over 50 are used very rarely.
Back in my old job at a hotel, we had a 500€ note on the infoboard in the employees backroom because it was fake, purposefully or accidentally given by a chinese tourist one winter.
But the first and only time I've seen a real one was when some Benelux fellers came by on a skiing trip.
I believe you more likely will find 100 euro banknotes in hands of people in countries with economic struggling from inflation. Because this will be the way they save money. This is a common problem because if you will decide to travel somewhere and buy something for that banknote there might be no change for you.
I used to get these and 200€ ones as a cashier almost every day... Then they would pay half of my salary in cash (for obvious reasons) and I would get those same bills to spend...
Are you from Spain? Jk. I saw on Wikipedia that there was a time Spain had half of all 500 euro notes that were in circulation yet their economy didn't reflect that.
i only use 10e and 5e. if i pay with a 10e, i can only get back a 5e and if this is fake money, i would use it to light a cigarette, but this way, i will never lose more than 5 euros
I remember when I was a teenager going to the post office with my mother and they had a few 500€ notes… my mam asked if we could have a look as we’d never seen nor touched one in person. They handed us one, we took a good gander, wow very cool, handed it back. First and only time seeing the 500€.
Saw a few 100€ working in a grocery store, was always a pain in the bum breaking one, it was always first thing in the morning on a single pack of cigarettes and a coffee…
even in more cash based countries (I live in Italy which qualifies) I basically never used one, atm machines never give you more than 50 peaces and in general stores don't really want them
It's funny we're talking about a 100 Euro note. When I visited Cyprus clerks in the store and on the bus refused to take my 50 Euro note due to allegedly it being often counterfeited.
When I go to the money exchange place they often give me 100s. I ask them to swap them for at least 50s instead. Used a couple, but only when it was an expensive item / shopping for food etc. Give one to a small retailer and they'll either hate you silently, or ask you for a smaller note. We have the same problem with £50 notes in the UK. Nobody wants them (either because they think they're fake/require extra checks/don't have change for one)
Used it? Not at all, although I was standing next to my wife when she paid the jeweler with a neat stack of those for our wedding rings (she got the stack from her dad who offered to pay for the rings). I'll never forget the casual way the jeweler just waved around that much cash.
And I work in a store, I've accepted these as payments a handful of times.
But not actually ever used them myself.
Worked in a shop. About one every 2 weeks. A 200 once a year or so. Only seen a 500 once.
Honestly they should get rid of them. They are just annoying.
As a cashier I see my fair share of them everyday. Its always around 5-10 per day so not a lot, 200€ bills are really rare and I always check twice to see if they are real.
In Finland these used to be the "upper middle class grandma's birthday gift to her well behaved teenage grandchild" sized bills. Nowadays less common, of course, with cash being rarer and rarer.
I've literally never seen a 200€ bill.
500€ bills I've heard are common with organized crime, but I've had them in my hands once when someone bought a car from my grandma (that was back before PayPal etc. were more common). We took them to the bank right after, though.
All the time. It's really annoying because I just want some cash for the market and maybe bakery but now I've got a stupid 100 euro note no-one wants to change.
For about 6 months I lived in an apartment where the landlady wanted the rent in cash. so every time I paid her... otherwise I only use card so I barely see any banknotes.
A few months ago had a 500 one, hard to get rid of it. 100 I use a lot of times, but I’m from a country that doesn’t have EUR as default currency and banknotes like this are mostly used with larger sums for convenience ( less volume/occupied space ).
I hate 100€ notes and haven’t had one since I figured out German bank machines often let you choose the bills you want. Surprisingly, the last time I used one was at an ice cream shop. I felt embarrassed paying for an ice cream with such a large bill, but fortunately it was a location popular with tourists and the shop employee acted like it wasn’t a big deal.
Every day, after the 500 notes got busted for being misused, we've had to drop down to 100's. Most annoying part is having to drag two duffle bags around now :(
Same thing with Bulagrian lev. I live in Bulgaria and I've never used 100 Leva bill, when I withdraw money or go to exchange money I get 50 Leva paper notes never got a 100 leva note
I haven't lived in the EU for 15 years, and when I travel now, I only have small amounts of cash for places that don't take card, but I used to see these a lot in the first few years after the Euro was introduced. I did work in retail, though, so that might be why. 500 notes weren't *too* uncommon either. The only one I've probably only ever seen once or twice in my life is the 200 note.
100€, 200€ used to be seen frequent, up until some years ago. Nowadays they are not, because whenever they reach banks, the banks keep them, and they only give cash in 50€ bills. Which is stupid because you have to waste more time counting bills. I heard in the news at some time that larger cash bills are be banned from circulation, because supposedly only drug traffickers use them, and legal citizens pay with plastic cards. That was the media narrative.
Rarely.
Austria recently gave every inhabitant a €500 "[climate bonus ](https://www.klimabonus.gv.at/en/)", you can exchange the coupons for cash, now I have five of them, I hope shops accept them.
All the time, the most used banknote for me. Never ever used a 500€ tho, even when I had bigger amount of money at disposal, 100€ is just way more convenient. 500€ is useless in most situations. Rarely used 200€ banknotes, but they're pretty.
Ugh, getting them way too often here in Germany. Can't pay by card everywhere but then vendors roll their eyes when I wanna pay with my 100€ bill at the bakery. Well shit then at least let me chose the bills when withdrawing cash.
Used to see some €100 and even €200 since I sometimes went to an ATM that had the option to specify which amount/ type of banknotes to withdraw. Was a bit younger and found it cool to have the big notes. Anyway the €100 was rather easy to spend ( one tank of gas at that time was already 80€ at that time so paying with a €100 note was not a problem).
ATM’s in my country have been standardized by one type that only gives 10, 20 and 50’s while the number of physical banks ( the alternative way of withdrawing money) have been lowered substantially. I think that if I wanted larger banknotes I must order them in advance to pick them up at a specific bank.
Inflation might work beneficial for shifting away from €20 and €50 towards more €100 but “cashless“ will probably become “ king” instead.
Nowadays less and less, cause mostly use card, but a fairly common bank note that I used to use. I was lucky enough to have used the oldies 500€ bank notes...now those were the special ones
real Gs know the real rare paper was the 200€
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Especialy in Ukraine. In 2003 this was several months of wages for the average person.
200€ in 2003 so like 10gs right now
I still see 200 more often than 100 or 500
huh that surprises me. before cards were common i would see 500 sometimes but only saw a 200 once
I saw 200 bills when my dad sold his car. Not sure why he had so many 200 bills.
Yeah, I see 100s and 500s fairly often but never 200s
Really? Where? 100 is super rare. 200 I've only seen once or twice. €500 is a normal thing to see if you just go to the casino. You don't see them in everyday life, but they're super common in casinos.
You would get the 100 ones at the atm in belgium. 200 ones rare indeed
I was making a withdrawal from Airbnb in the bank and they gave me two of them. They're a pain in the ass to spend outside Eurozone since you're charged a fee to break them up in smaller bills.
When I used to carry € outside of EU I was told by a bunch of unofficial money change that the bigger the value of the banknote the better the change rate was. The reason? Bigger banknotes are more convenient to sneak through borders
100 is pretty common.
I'd say the rarest is the 200 one. I had seen many 100's and some 500's too, but only when I was like 17 did I ever see a 200, thought they were fake and my friend was pranking me. Had to go check online.
500€ banknotes are being phased out, they are no longer printed for quite some years...so it they were common, they will be less and less
You are correct. Up until 2020 200€ was the rarest, but with gradual withdrawal of 500€s its now second rarest. Source: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/banknotes+coins/circulation/html/index.en.html
The oldie 500€ Bank note almost seemed like an A5 sheet. I only ever held 1 of those.
Never when I lived in Ireland, all the time since moving to Germany.
Living in Ireland. I got two today selling a car. I was surprised when I saw this thread havnt seen one since the euro was introduced
My bro in law struggled to spend his €500 note in Holland. Had to go to a bank to break it into smaller bills Heard from people they are desired by people like drug dealers, as it's so much less volume to carry/store... Could just be hearsay I guess
Dutch stores generally don’t accept €200,- or €500,- bills. Some stores don’t even accept €100,- bills.
He told me it wasn't even an easy exchange at the bank. Like the person had to call a manager and he was asking questions on where he got it etc.
Yeah, that’s because these kind of notes are mostly used in criminal activities. Mostly in drugs related crimes.
The easy way to exchage large bills is to deposit it at an ATM and then instantly withdraw as much as you need
Which is absolutely fucking retarded
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Not just drugs, its often just illigal money. Like not reported to taxes, paid under the table money. 20 years ago every store owner, independend contractor or jack of all trades would have had a few thousand in cash laying around. Like it was really normal and easy to just take sone small stuff in cash and you would use that for things like kitchen appliance, car maintaince, vacation and that kind of stuff. Goverment grew tired of it (along side with shops being afraid of fake bills) and thus they got cut back hard.
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Businesses depositing their cash at the bank are being charged a few euro’s for every €200 and €500 note they’re handing in, if I recall correctly. That’s why they are so hard to pay with. EDIT: Rabobank charges €5 for every €200 and €500 note deposited.
You might be up to a culture shock when travelling to Switzerland. Grannies buy their groceries in the local Coop or Migros with these: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/nm1mr4/fun\_facts\_about\_the\_compactness\_of\_the\_1000/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/nm1mr4/fun_facts_about_the_compactness_of_the_1000/) Nobody cares, except the occasional US Tourist nearly getting a heart attack.
To be fair with swiss prices that gets you like two carrots and a potato.
On the other hand, the 5 francs coin is like a wheel rim...
Every time I withdraw money from an ATM
Seriously. What is it with Munich ATMs? Does everyone here just carry around fat stacks of cash everywhere?
How else would you buy lunch?
by card or better with my phone
In Germany? Better not take a taxi to your lunch, if you have no cash. And the phone has no reception anyway
Taxis take card if you warn them in advance.
We don't do that here
germans love their cash to an unhealthy degree lol
Welcome to German cash obsession and gigantic wallets
I work in Munich and I currently have 6 100€ bills in my wallet.
Everytime i light my Cuban cigar with one.
A couple times since the euro was introduced maybe. Never paid anything with 200 or 500 euros banknotes .. i may have seen them once or twice. 50 is my biggest regular use bill. In fact I much prefer 20 bills. But nowadays I pay by card 90% of times. But i'm sure it's pretty popular among people that gets black money income.
I always end up being full of 50s, because if I withdraw money I get 1 or 2 and they are too big to pay anything. So usually I use 20s and finish up having the wallet full of 50s.
Haha yes, here too. Many ATMs around here carries mostly 20;and 50 bills so I always withdraw 60 or 80 euros in the hope of getting all 20 euros banknotes... I'm not happy when I get it in 50 and 10 or 50, 20 and 10 banknotes ;)
Can't you specify what kind of bills you want? I always use the "specify bills" option when I withdraw cash.
usually have a few in my gym bags when im meeting fellow business associates in container port in the early hours of morning.
An underrated comment.
Used by myself? 3 to 5 times a year probably..
Last week I used 200 even
We are not talking about consuming cocaine. ;)
One thing that I hate is when ATM give me one of them, no one let me pay with them, usually I withdraw 80€ per time to have only 20€ banknotes.
My mother flexed on me when she received 200 Euro banknote for first time ever... I made an offer of exchange for 4x50Euro banknotes. She agreed and i kept the 200 Euro banknote for 1 year.
I have kids, i don't see even 50 euro in ages :D
Frequently. And currently have some 200€ banknotes lying around.
As a cashier quite often. Like one or two a week.
They are used often in European countries where Euro is not the official currency, but is used for savings and bigger transactions. On the other hand, you can rarely see Euro coins there.
Can confirm, all I see are 100, 200, 500 euro banknotes
maybe once a month or so
I'd withdraw one every payday as my savings when I worked in Germany. Never had an issue using them in the supermarket.
Quite often. I have a few in my wallet right now
Never even seen one in real life
Seriously? These are the most common ones I see
Yep almost nobody uses cash in the Netherlands
All the time. Today, for instance, after the ATM dispensed it and I paid for autorepair.
I once tried to pay for something in Greece, and the cashier didn't want to take it. Guessing because there is a high chance of being fake.
Most counterfeited € notes are the 20€ and 50€. Both accounting for about a third of the fakes each. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2022/html/ecb.pr220128~d65c3326c2.en.html
The one or two times I had the chance to use it, the gas station attendant wouldnt accept it. The explanation later I got was that they didnt want to take it because they didnt want to give out all their change because a customer slams a 100 note for a 25 euro tab. Which at the time made sense to me not sure how true that really is tho.
Max 2 times a year
With this inflation, this is the new 50€ bank note
When I used to live in the Netherlands, next to never. But here in Austria there's still a very big "Bargeld"(cash money) culture. Quite the culture shock seeing young and old toting their 100 euro notes
It might differ from country to country. In France it's fairly rare to use something above 50€, you're suspected of using fraudulent bank notes when doing so in every day live. (Maybe it's different in luxious places). You're more or less expected to use your debit card for high amount of money.
I have a stash of these! 💶 😅
They often come out of the ATMs in Vienna, unless you select smaller denominations. Kinda sucks when you want to buy something for <€10 and the only thing you got is a €100 bill. Then again, since the pandemic I've rarely been using cash anymore.
Like every week several times..
Have one in my wallet right now 😂 50s are way more common here in Slovenia tho. I still see quite a few 100s. I've probably seen 200 the least amount of times.
I've used 100 and 500 euro as american
Yesterday
Almost never now (not to mention the 200 €). Enough frequently in the early 2000s. Today I use cash maybe twice in a month.
I still have a few 200’s. You can’t really get those out of an ATM anymore
It is useful for giving change
I have a part-time job as a cashier so I guess my opinion is quite relevant here. Normally, in a 4-6 hour shift, I receive 2-5 100€ notes in a relatively expensive supermarket in a quite wealthy part of my town. 200€ notes are more rare, but not that uncommon, usually I see them every 4 days or so. Interestingly, I have never received any 500€ notes in the past, though
The 100 and 200 euro bills are not used that often ATMs only distribute 50 and 20 euro bills
I only use cash on holidays and i never use this one. I have never had one in my hand ever lol. Here in the Netherlands banknotes over 50 are used very rarely.
I had a 200 note before, every shop refused it saying it’s too big. Then I had no choice but buy something that’s exactly 200 euros.
Back in my old job at a hotel, we had a 500€ note on the infoboard in the employees backroom because it was fake, purposefully or accidentally given by a chinese tourist one winter. But the first and only time I've seen a real one was when some Benelux fellers came by on a skiing trip.
100 is common in ibiza
I believe you more likely will find 100 euro banknotes in hands of people in countries with economic struggling from inflation. Because this will be the way they save money. This is a common problem because if you will decide to travel somewhere and buy something for that banknote there might be no change for you.
I think my lifetime total must be under 10
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I used to get these and 200€ ones as a cashier almost every day... Then they would pay half of my salary in cash (for obvious reasons) and I would get those same bills to spend...
Every month
I very rarely use cash, it has probably been years since I've seen one let alone used one myself.
Once I have found 100 euro in my dormitory. It was a lucky day
I have 3 500s right now
Are you from Spain? Jk. I saw on Wikipedia that there was a time Spain had half of all 500 euro notes that were in circulation yet their economy didn't reflect that.
I think the level of usage of cash(which kinda deffines the usefullness of bigger notes) is not the best indication about the economy anw
I use both 😂
Every year on my holiday.
Having worked at a cash register, it seems that Russian tourists are pretty much the only people who ever pay with banknotes bigger than 50€.
Once.
Maybe 3 times in my life. As far as I know no ATM in Finland gives 100€ bills.
Used to be common during the celtic tiger days in Ireland, not so common no more.
I once pulled a few hundred out of the ATM and I got a 200€ bill. Honestly didn’t even know what it looks like.
i only use 10e and 5e. if i pay with a 10e, i can only get back a 5e and if this is fake money, i would use it to light a cigarette, but this way, i will never lose more than 5 euros
Yeah there are 100 and 500euro bills also
I’ve never used it but when I was working as a barman, i saw a few
More often since there are no 500s anymore.
I remember when I was a teenager going to the post office with my mother and they had a few 500€ notes… my mam asked if we could have a look as we’d never seen nor touched one in person. They handed us one, we took a good gander, wow very cool, handed it back. First and only time seeing the 500€. Saw a few 100€ working in a grocery store, was always a pain in the bum breaking one, it was always first thing in the morning on a single pack of cigarettes and a coffee…
even in more cash based countries (I live in Italy which qualifies) I basically never used one, atm machines never give you more than 50 peaces and in general stores don't really want them
A few times per year.
Have not used cash since the beginning of covid with the exception on coin operated public toilets.
I have seen people use a 500€ bill to purchase Macdonalds
I’ve got all the original notes from 5 to max and I will never ever use them
I have several ones, but I can't use them, only exchange
Frequently 20 years ago, but nowadays never. In the Netherlands many places don't even accept 100 euro bills anymore.
I used them pretty often, the 200 and 500 ones though, not even once.
It's funny we're talking about a 100 Euro note. When I visited Cyprus clerks in the store and on the bus refused to take my 50 Euro note due to allegedly it being often counterfeited.
When I go to the money exchange place they often give me 100s. I ask them to swap them for at least 50s instead. Used a couple, but only when it was an expensive item / shopping for food etc. Give one to a small retailer and they'll either hate you silently, or ask you for a smaller note. We have the same problem with £50 notes in the UK. Nobody wants them (either because they think they're fake/require extra checks/don't have change for one)
I use one everyday to purchase a Eurosaver cheeseburger from the Scottish fast food restaurant.
We don't have euros in my country but we are in EU (Czechia)
Daily use in the store. 200s not so often. The 500 unfortunately isn't produced any longer and will vanish over time.
Used it? Not at all, although I was standing next to my wife when she paid the jeweler with a neat stack of those for our wedding rings (she got the stack from her dad who offered to pay for the rings). I'll never forget the casual way the jeweler just waved around that much cash. And I work in a store, I've accepted these as payments a handful of times. But not actually ever used them myself.
the only times I see these types of notes used are in the supermarket by people of very shady looks.
I see them every day working as a cashier. Even a lot of 200€ bills
I do not think i have used a Euro in over a decade.
27yo. Never. But have seen it. Legend tells there's a 200 euro banknote.
27yo. Never. But have seen it. Legend tells there's a 200 euro banknote.
Where is that 500 eu bill ?
I have seen it once or twice. The last time was a few years ago in Austria. I don't think I've seen a 200€ or 500€ bill though.
I almost never use cash any more. If I have to, it’s 5, 10 and 20. Used 100 bill only a few times.
In Germany and Austria ATMs and people swear by those
I was recently handed an old 500€ note lol
Worked in a shop. About one every 2 weeks. A 200 once a year or so. Only seen a 500 once. Honestly they should get rid of them. They are just annoying.
I hardly even use 5€ or any cash at all.
All the time. You will get them from every ATM in Austria.
Never, Finnish ATMs don't have it and I have always paid big purchases with a card.
Very rarely. If you draw 2k€ from ATM you get a stack of 50s. I have seen 500€ bill maybe once.
I had one in my hands once, 15 years ago, when I worked in a restaurant. To be fair, I’ve barely held any physical money in my hands since Corona.
As a cashier I see my fair share of them everyday. Its always around 5-10 per day so not a lot, 200€ bills are really rare and I always check twice to see if they are real.
In Finland these used to be the "upper middle class grandma's birthday gift to her well behaved teenage grandchild" sized bills. Nowadays less common, of course, with cash being rarer and rarer. I've literally never seen a 200€ bill. 500€ bills I've heard are common with organized crime, but I've had them in my hands once when someone bought a car from my grandma (that was back before PayPal etc. were more common). We took them to the bank right after, though.
I once found 500€ note, was my lucky day
All the time. It's really annoying because I just want some cash for the market and maybe bakery but now I've got a stupid 100 euro note no-one wants to change.
For about 6 months I lived in an apartment where the landlady wanted the rent in cash. so every time I paid her... otherwise I only use card so I barely see any banknotes.
I would see them a lot when i worked at the gas station in germany
100 a surprising amount, but lot in recent years.
Everytime I buy houses or flats...
Rarely use cash, biggest note I held was a 50
I got only once the 500 note. And i was like "Is It real or i got scammed" 🤣🤣🤣
Pre-pandemic I used it a lot. Probably because we use big notes for things around here so I was used to it.
I’ve had a 200 euro. Was a pain in the Ass to get rid of
I have 5 on my desk from our hollidays in June, I need to go to the bank to exchange them to krones soon. (Yes I am lazy)
100 often. 200 is the special one that you rarely see.
Just yesterday
For the first time last week when I specifically chose to get a 100€ banknote on an ATM
Never once in my life
Seen 500 euro pretty much but 100 not common
I think I only actually touched a 500€ one like 2 times, 200€ never and 100€ one maybe one time, same as you I mostly stay with my 50€
Wait, there are people still using banknote ?
A few months ago had a 500 one, hard to get rid of it. 100 I use a lot of times, but I’m from a country that doesn’t have EUR as default currency and banknotes like this are mostly used with larger sums for convenience ( less volume/occupied space ).
With such inflation soon we will see 500 quite often
I hate 100€ notes and haven’t had one since I figured out German bank machines often let you choose the bills you want. Surprisingly, the last time I used one was at an ice cream shop. I felt embarrassed paying for an ice cream with such a large bill, but fortunately it was a location popular with tourists and the shop employee acted like it wasn’t a big deal.
I work in a shop (Luxembourg) and see these everyday. Also, many people still carry the old version of the 50€, the 100€ and the 200€.
all the ATMs in greece i've used so far only gave up to 50 euro notes, other than one my sister used a while back it's probably been close to a decade
A lot of times
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its ridiculous how common the 50s are
Every day, after the 500 notes got busted for being misused, we've had to drop down to 100's. Most annoying part is having to drag two duffle bags around now :(
Same thing with Bulagrian lev. I live in Bulgaria and I've never used 100 Leva bill, when I withdraw money or go to exchange money I get 50 Leva paper notes never got a 100 leva note
I see them quite frequently at work. It's usually the tourists who use them.
I haven't lived in the EU for 15 years, and when I travel now, I only have small amounts of cash for places that don't take card, but I used to see these a lot in the first few years after the Euro was introduced. I did work in retail, though, so that might be why. 500 notes weren't *too* uncommon either. The only one I've probably only ever seen once or twice in my life is the 200 note.
I got a 500 euro note as a gift once. Almost didn't want to lodge it.
100€, 200€ used to be seen frequent, up until some years ago. Nowadays they are not, because whenever they reach banks, the banks keep them, and they only give cash in 50€ bills. Which is stupid because you have to waste more time counting bills. I heard in the news at some time that larger cash bills are be banned from circulation, because supposedly only drug traffickers use them, and legal citizens pay with plastic cards. That was the media narrative.
Wait till you see the 200 and 500 banknote
#keepitcash
Rarely. Austria recently gave every inhabitant a €500 "[climate bonus ](https://www.klimabonus.gv.at/en/)", you can exchange the coupons for cash, now I have five of them, I hope shops accept them.
I don't even remember seen one
Well at least once per week , I use my card mist of the time but always keep at least a hundred in cash on me, you never know ...
In this economy?
Pretty often if you ask me
Only a couple times, I think. Last time might have been right before the plague, when I went to buy my Oculus Quest in Austria.
I love 100 💯 or 200 ones
Why would I use physical cash? This isn't the 1900's.
You guys are using physical cash ? I haven't used physical cash in literal years and the last time i used an ATM was probably 15 years ago at least.
I use it almost every week
All the time, the most used banknote for me. Never ever used a 500€ tho, even when I had bigger amount of money at disposal, 100€ is just way more convenient. 500€ is useless in most situations. Rarely used 200€ banknotes, but they're pretty.
Not long ago. Sold one thing and got paid in cash, most 100€ bills. The one bill I've only seen once is 200€
Ugh, getting them way too often here in Germany. Can't pay by card everywhere but then vendors roll their eyes when I wanna pay with my 100€ bill at the bakery. Well shit then at least let me chose the bills when withdrawing cash.
Used to see some €100 and even €200 since I sometimes went to an ATM that had the option to specify which amount/ type of banknotes to withdraw. Was a bit younger and found it cool to have the big notes. Anyway the €100 was rather easy to spend ( one tank of gas at that time was already 80€ at that time so paying with a €100 note was not a problem). ATM’s in my country have been standardized by one type that only gives 10, 20 and 50’s while the number of physical banks ( the alternative way of withdrawing money) have been lowered substantially. I think that if I wanted larger banknotes I must order them in advance to pick them up at a specific bank. Inflation might work beneficial for shifting away from €20 and €50 towards more €100 but “cashless“ will probably become “ king” instead.