The National Bank of Austria also saw a “slight decline” in counterfeits in 2025 according to a press release issued on February 27. Austria saw a 1.2% decrease, from 10,209 notes in 2024 to 10,089 in ...

Bulgaria has effectively completed the transition period for adopting the euro, though formal legal adoption remains pending.

Of the exchanges last year, €554,950 was in old banknotes while €110,397 was made up of coins ...

More than €1.2m in old Irish punts were exchanged over the past two years as people continue discovering stashes of old notes and coins decades after the euro changeover.

Bulgaria has effectively completed its transition to the euro, with the bulk of the leva already withdrawn from circulation.

In Germany, the likelihood of being passed counterfeit money has decreased after the number of counterfeit notes fell again ...

The next issue of our banknotes will swap Britain’s greatest minds, heroes and leaders, with wildlife. Gone are Shakespeare, Churchill, Austen, Turner, Turing, Wellington; in their place, the Bank of ...

In 2025, the NBB withdrew 15 198 counterfeit banknotes from circulation. This represents a slight increase on 2024, when 14 ...

Further, the ECB added that “foreign monetary conditions could be ‘imported’ into the euro area through stablecoins,” ...

This is why European lenders are ditching foreign rails to reclaim monetary sovereignty and secure its digital destiny as ...

The Bank of England is replacing British icons like Winston Churchill and Jane Austen with pictures of animals on our money. This is not a neutral act, says James Price The field of numismatics shows ...