Hello everyone, im a banknote collector from Kosovo and i wanted to share with you the beautiful banknote of your country! I also wanted to ask you, what could you have bought with this one, what was it’s value back then?

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  2. That’s 100 frank, about 2.5 euro, or 1 cola in a cheap café. Back in the 90s, I suppose you could get 2 colas.

  4. Value at exchange rate at the time of transition to euro was 2,5 euro. But that is over 20 years ago. What you could buy with it was drastically more than now. I would say, for sure 2 beers in a bar at the time.

  5. When i was young i could buy 3 beers at a party with it, now i can´t buy 1 beer with it at the bar. Its no worth .70 euro

  7. Here’s a little fun story: I used to live in Cologne, Germany in the 1990s. Around 1994 or so, I decided to make a trip to Ireland. I made sure I have some British Pounds and also some Belgian Francs with me for on the journey…

    In Ireland I decided to take the route via France back, so I didn’t need my Belgian Francs any more. So I went to a bank and changed them to Irish Pounds … and I remember thinking: “oh, I seem to have gotten a good exchange rate”, as I got more than I expected. Only later I realised that they have given me exactly the exchange rate for French Francs, which was, IDK, maybe 3 or 4 times higher…

    So apparently, not everybody knew the difference between French and Belgian Francs.

    Before anyone asks: I made a profit of the equivalent of maybe 20 Euro by the bank’s mistake. I am sure they can afford the loss.

  8. Back in the 90s you could buy 5 loaves of bread with it. Now you’re lucky to find a baker where you can buy 1 loaf with it.

    I remember my mom sending me down to the bakery for a loaf with 20 frank at the age of 7 and I had to go back home without bread because the price had risen. First time I encountered the phenomenon called “inflation”.

  11. The price of a pack of Marlboro in 1994. It costs a lot more nowadays lol. Also two pintjes beer, or een klein friet en fricadelle if my memories are good.

  14. Four beers in a pub.

    I grew up in a pub, my grandmother owned one. I distinctly remember a pint being 25 BEF in the late nineties. This was in the countryside though. I’d guess a beer in the city would have been around 30 or 35 BEF at that time.

  20. When I was a teenager in the 90s, you could buy 5 drinks with that at a party (fuif), which was cheap. Sometimes it was 4. Years later sometimes it was 2. Basically beer or a cola went from 20 frank to 50.

  21. Euro got introduced when I entered high school. I have limited memories from franc. But I remember that I felt rich with a coin of 50 francs.

  24. An arcade game would cost 20 BEF to play at the fair or in an arcade hall in the 90s. So this would get you 5 games.

  25. This is a note of the last series, used between 1995 and 2002. In that period, you could buy 2 beers with it at a bar, and in most bars you’d still have change left.

  33. Equals €2,5.
    4 to 5 beers, depending on the bar/jeugdhuis. And that’s all I remember about what you could buy with it 😃

  34. I vividly remember CDs used to cost around 2000 francs for a brand new release. Cans of coke out of a vending machine maybe 20 or 25 francs. So if I had 100 francs as a kid I reckon I’d bike to the nearest le soir, get a can of coke, some sweets and a couple football panini sticker packs!

  38. In the 90’s that would buy you 5 to 10 games on an arcade machine. They used to be 10 or 20 frank.

  40. I remember going to the bakery to buy bread with 50 BF. So i’d say 2-3 loafs of bread right before changing to euro sounds about right.

  44. I used to pay 100 BEF for lunch at university (in 1999, until the euro came). I got a ham and veggies sandwich, a coffee, and an éclair for that. Today, it would hardly pay for a coffee.

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