Lisbon Money Matters

The euro is the currency of the Economic and Monetary Union and was adopted by 11 State-members from the European Union on the 1st of January 1999: Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Spain. In 2010, there are 16 members in total, including Cyprus, Greece, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

Euro Symbol

The symbol of the euro currency is an "E" crossed by two parallel and diagonal lines. It is inspired on the representation of the Greek letter epsilon, calling up the birth of the European civilization and the first letter of the word Europe. The two parallel lines represent the internal stability of the euro.

Euro

The circulation of the euro started on the 1st of January 2001 with 7 different bank notes and 8 different coins: bank notes of 500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 euros, and coins of 2 and 1 euros and 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, and 1 centimes.
Although the coins have both a European common side and a specific national side, they are accepted in all the countries that joined the euro currency, and the same is applied to bank notes.

Notes and Coins

Both bank notes and coins were also conceived for people with visual disabilities. Therefore, the bank notes - besides having different sizes - count on elements that allow the identification of the different notes through touch.
The different configurations of the coins' circumference, together with the different sizes, allow blind and partially blind people to identify the several coins.

Currency conversions

1 US Dollar = 0.69410 EUR
1 GBP UK Pound Sterling = 1.11123 EUR
1 CHF (Swiss Francs) = 0.677599 EUR
1 DKK (Denmark Kroner) = 0.134391 EUR
1 NOK (Norway Kroner) = 0.122678 EUR
1 SEK (Sweden Kroner) = 0.0981544 EUR

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