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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  1. In 2003, 5 Cyprus Pounds were equivalent to €8.5. Obviously you could buy more with €8.5 2 decades ego, due to inflation.

  5. So many good memories with this one 🙂 In 1996 Cinema ticket was 2.50 for adults and 1.50 for minors. Popcorn, salt and vinegar crisps and cola at the theater was around 1.50 I think. So as a teen you still had 1 pound after the movies to spend at the arcade. With 1 pound you could 10 games with 10 cent coin in most machines, neo geo games and higher quality flippers were priced at 20 cents.

    Souvlaki Kebab (2 skewers 100grams of pork each in a pitta with salad) was around 2.50. Alcoholic drinks (vodka + soda mixer) was 3 pounds. Sausage pastry roll at school was 25 cents and sandwich with roast pork, halloumi and cucumber was 35 cents. Pint of local beer was 1.50. Camel and Marlboro Lights 1.50. Internet hour at webcafe 1.50 for a single hour, 5 pounds special deal for 8 hours. 5 pounds was the weekly allowance for most kids. Frappe (cold foamy coffee from instant coffee) at decent places was still 1 pound maybe 1.50 at fancier places.

    In 2001 regular petrol with lead price per litter was 37 cent. People would still complain that it was expensive.

  6. 2003 if i recall correctly a pack of cigarettes would be 2.50, a pint of beer would be around 3 and a glass of vodka around 4. I remember something like that because i was in my early twenties and I worked that summer as a waiter and would get 20£ per night ( finished at 11) which i would spend afterwards at the pub.

  8. Lol! Memories. Back in the day, there was only one telecom provider in Cyprus, Cyta. Up until 2002 I believe, you could only buy 20 pounds so-easy top up cards. When Cyta allowed lower units to be purchased, I always bought 5 pounds top up and used this note a lot. I was a, shall we say “yet to be rich foreign student” in Nicosia. So 5 pounds top up went some distance calling friends in Cyprus.

    Edit: Anyone care to mention what the images on both sides of the note depict?

  10. If I remember correctly, in the late 80s/early 90s an action figure (like Masters of the Universe etc.) was about £5 from toy stores like Mavros.

  11. 1994-95 I used to go to the cinema every Friday with one of these. Paid entrance and get a couple of snacks and when the movies where finished we used to go with my mates for a burger with fries and 2 pints of beer and still ended up with some change.. I miss Cyprus of those days

  13. When I was a kid in the 90’s you could get an ice cream cone for 30 cents. Just before he retired the ice cream man sold the same ice cream cone for a 1.50.

  14. 1 pound was about 1.7 Euro. Not sure how this exchange rate corresponds to today.

    But I remember when I was younger that you could go to the store and with 1£ you could buy 2-3 bags of chips and still have some change left.

  17. damn man!!! this is when our money actually still had some value.
    as a teen, back in 90’s, if you had at least this in your pocket on a Friday night, with your friends, you knew you would have a good time

  18. Going by its printed date, back in 2003 you could get 2 full meals out of it as a student and still have change left.

  19. Omg the memories. Bro, showing up with the cafeteria with one of these badbois meant you were stacked as fuck in school. I miss the smell of lira, euro is a plastic ass currency

  20. Remember my dad asking to fill up the tank on our old double cab 🤣 cost was 5 lires.

    I need 120 euros for mine the other day having the same capacity tank for diesel.

  23. This is a ‘mini’ version of the original!! The original is “spread your arms! from fingertips to fingertips BIG” (<Τοσες>). In the early days of circulation it was your wages for a Month! The 1st 1 i got – i went to “Jet” and bought a “Bell bottom trousers- a frilled shirt-1 month bus ticket and had some change left too” A 1 Lira was just as big and more people/places took/exchanged them!!!

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