What To Do With Your Old Pesetas
November 20th, 2009 - Chris MarshallRemember when you were a skint student and Friday evenings started off with a delve down the back of the sofa for any old change?
Should the urge, or need, arise to do that now and you come across some old Spanish Pesetas what can you do with them?
The only option now is to take notes and coins to the Bank of Spain to have the exchanged. You wont be alone thoigh as somewhat surprisingly it is estimated that there are still 1.746m€ stuck down the back of sofas in Spain (literally in many cases!)
In September 2009 over 2m€ of Pesetas were exchanged, down for 3m€ worth in August 2009 (paying for the summer holidays eh!)
A bit of trivia for you: When the notes and coins started to be exchanged in January 2002, there were 48,750 million euros worth of pesetas in circulation, of which 46,230 were notes and 2,520 coins
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