The UK banned the sale of 500-euro notes at exchange offices in 2010.
In 2002 euro notes and coins came in and the old paper currencies were phased out.
When euro notes and coins are introduced in 2002, a new set of problems will emerge.
The arrival of euro notes and coins, too, is good for Europe and for its businesses.
They could detour the Maastricht roadblock simply by authorizing private banks to issue their own euro notes.
The benefits brought by private issue of euro notes would accrue both to Poland and to the global economy.
The single currency's impact will be immediate, even though euro notes and coins will not be issued before January 2002.
Police recently dismantled a suspected ring composed of five Portuguese citizens, accused of counterfeiting and passing off 50 and 20-euro notes.
Having no euro notes in the till, Mr Weijs feared that at this pace the shop might run out coins fast.
Euro notes and coins are due to be issued in place of national notes and coins from the start of 2002.
It will swap your escudos or drachmas for euro notes and coins.
ECB's wishes by 2002, when euro notes and coins come into circulation.
One survey earlier this year suggested that over 60% of euro-zone citizens expect prices to rise when euro notes and coins are introduced.
The January lunch of euro notes and coins in 12 European countries sparked another round of predictions that the Continent's common currency would soar.
And German consumers have put their government on the defensive, claiming that the introduction of euro notes and coins in January pushed prices up.
European banks had previously warned that the introduction of euro notes and coins could result in an increase in prices by as much as 1%.
A, a department store, fell foul of a court for offering 20% price reductions in the first few days after the introduction of euro notes and coins.
Euro notes will be full of clever security features, but the early stages, when the new money is unfamiliar, will still be a chance to pass counterfeits.
In a few weeks it will launch its most spectacular act of integration: the physical abolition of 12 currencies and their replacement by euro notes and coins.
David Thwaites, European equity analyst at Paribas bank, believes the introduction of the euro notes and coins will not have a lasting impact on the European equity market.
Mr Manolopoulos says although some of this money has been spent, he thinks a proportion has been sent abroad, and large quantities of euro notes are stashed under mattresses.
Plenty of west Africans, especially businessmen, now fear that the arrival of euro notes and coins means that another devaluation is on the way, despite the authorities' best attempts to reassure.
Border checks restrict the export of unstamped euro notes.
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To add to the security worries, a hologram stamp that was to be one of the safety features for euro notes was stolen from an Air France flight from Paris to Munich in May.
While the southern coast of Spain was once believed to have the highest concentration of 500-euro notes in circulation, the distinctive purple bill has become more like the unicorn of Europe because they are rarely seen.
With the launch of euro notes and coins only weeks away, the prospect of the war dragging on for months, and crucial meetings ahead to finalize EU and Nato reforms, it's not a good time for Mr Berlusconi to become preoccupied with his personal ratings.
That position, and the likelihood that the next general election will be in 2001, has long led aides to European leaders such as Helmut Kohl to believe that Britain is likeliest to adopt the euro on January 1st 2002, the day on which euro notes and coins replace national currencies.
Another shows what appears to be a large quantity of high-denomination euro currency notes.
Then well-capitalized foreign commercial banks doing business in Poland could issue euro-denominated notes redeemable in official euros.
In the northern England city of Gateshead, for example, a De La Rue PLC plant prints bank notes on behalf of several euro-zone countries, according to people familiar with the matter.
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