If a citizen of our continent uses the purse, the most likely thing is that he will take out a euro. Not in vain is it the currency of the nineteen countries that make up the so-called eurozone . But they can also be found in Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City and Andorra, which, without being members of the European Union , established an agreement with that institution to issue their own euros with the national symbols on the reverse. There are also them in Montenegro and Kosovo, which do not have an agreement sealed, so they do not issue them, but they do use them. Therefore, in 25 European countries you can pay in the EU currency. In economics, the European Central Bank is the entity responsible for the monetary policy of the states that make up the euro area.
All euro coins have a common face on the reverse, representing value (eight different ones ranging from one cent to two euros), but there are also collector’s editions with higher face value. For example, Germany has recently put into circulation a new five-euro coin (2.25 million units) that is only usable in German territory, while in Spain there are 12, 20 and 30 euros.
But, in addition to the euro, up to 27 different currencies coexist in Europe. The oldest is the British pound , whose origins date back to 1489, in the reign of Henry VII. Along with it coexist others such as the Swiss franc, the Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish and Czech crowns, the Russian ruble , the Georgian lari, the Hungarian forint, the Moldovan leu, the Serbian dinar, the Albanian lek or the Bosnian-Herzegovinian mark.
