Euro

[Ashley]

Help, can someone give me a crash corse on the euro

[slowcheetah9]

as in... the currency? the current exchange rate of euros to dollars is 1:0.677- so, say you've got $100 and you exchange them for euros. now you have almost 68 euros.
what else do you need to know? going to europe anytime soon? it's great.

[Ashley]

yeam im going to paris in a month.... how do the coins add up compared to the dollar?

[slowcheetah9]

ah... the coins... I'm not quite sure... to lazy to work it out at the moment... but it's basically $1.50 for 1 euro. whenever you exchange your money, they'll take care of that... but a good way to figure it when you're buying stuff is to think of it as twice as much... so you don't want to spend 3 euro on a postcard (you'll probably see that A LOT) because it's almost $6! I hope I'm at least helping a bit...
the coins are difficult to figure, because they have 1 euro coins, 2 euro, 20, 10, 5... and it comes out to decimals...
for example... if you've got 50 cents... it's like .341 in euros, which obviously is not an actual monetary amount... i suck at math, sorry.

[Hayley]

i think it works the same as sterling but i will ask my aunt and let you know how it works. what coins do you have in the us coz i never understood that? and have a note for $1 dont you?

[Ashley]

yeah we have a one dollar bill, 5 dollar bill, 10 dollar bill, 20 dollar bill, and fifty

we hace a penny= 1 cent
a nickle= 5 cent
a dime= 10 cent
quator= 25 cents

[Hayley]

The coins for the euro are
1 cent
2 cent
5 cent
10 cent
20 cent
50 cent
1 euro
then you have the notes
5 euro
10 euro
20 euro
50 eur
theres probably a 100 euro note but ive never seen one. we dont really use the word bill for currency, but i got no idea what they say in france,

[slowcheetah9]

^^ I also have a 2 Euro coin from my trip last summer.