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The Euro Sweden, have opted out of countries, each one featuring
France is one of the 19 European joining this common currency, designs of fictional architectural
Union countries that use the and Switzerland remains structures and monuments.
euro (€) as their common outside the EU completely, but The coins, however, have one
currency. Together they make otherwise the euro is used side identical (the value side)
up what is known as the across the whole of western and one side with an image
Eurozone. Some EU member Europe. Euro notes are identical specific to each individual
countries, notably Britain and throughout the Eurozone European country.

Bank Notes
Euro bank notes have seven
denominations. The €5 note (green
in colour) is the smallest, followed by
the €10 note (pink), €20 note (blue),
€50 note (orange), €100 note (green),
€200 note (yellow) and €500 note
(purple). All notes show the European 5 euros
Union stars.

10 euros

20 euros

50 euros

100 euros

200 euros

2 euros 1 euro 50 cents 20 cents 10 cents
Coins
The euro has eight coin denominations: €1 and €2;
and 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents, 2 cents and
1 cent. The €1 and €2 coins are silver and gold in
colour. The 50-cent, 20-cent and 10-cent coins are
gold. The 5-cent, 2-cent and 1-cent coins are bronze. 5 cents 2 cents 1 cent

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