American here, I’ve collected these 0 Euro bills from a few of the places I’ve visited in Europe, I was just wondering, is there a difference between the green and purple ones?

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1. As an european, what the hell is this?

2. No, they are all made as a souvenir for tourists.

3. Nice collection.

4. Looks like my savings account

5. Not really traditionally the purple is for 500 euro notes. The green for 100 euro notes and the bottom one is for a 50 euro note.

6. There are (at least in germany) two different companies. One does purple, one green. They differ slightly in size, so that you can’t use the official collectors books from one company for both types of bills.

   These bills came up recently, pressing 5 cent pieces (pressed pennies or elongated coins) with pictures of the places is more common, as well as a bigger pre-made coin (Memodallie).

   There are even websites that have locations for it, but i can’t remember.

   Source: my wife is into this stuff.

7. Euro Banknotes

   [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_banknotes)

   look up your color there.

8. Different companies.

   The green one is from euroscope

   The purple ones are from EuroSchein-Souvenir Gmb

   The ochre ones are from pennypress

9. I’m pretty sure the colour is different

10. tell me you are American without telling me you are American 🤦‍♂️

11. Never seen them before lol

12. Yes, the purple ones are usually used for drug or other illegal transactions such as tax evasion or money laundering. The Central Bank was against issueing such bills at first, but it was a requirement from Germany as they had similarly coloured bills for Deutsche Mark.

    Fun Fact: the purple bank notes actually limit the power that the central bank has to adjust interest rates downward, which was another reason the ECB was reluctant issueing purple bills. That’s not an issue currently (interest being up), but was predicted to become an issue in case COVID hadn’t happen and we’d still have negative interest rates. The idea is at some point, holding money as cash in their own bank vaults would become cheaper for banks than storing it at the ECB with a negative interest rate, and due to purple coloured bills, you can store a lot more value in smaller spaces, so that threshold was more easily reached. Any interest drop below this threshold would have no effect, as banks would just store it in cash.

    The interest rate was never low enough for this to actually become a problem though.

13. They all have more value that Argentinian pesos and Turkish lira.

14. Green ones taste better IMO

15. Yeah, the color

16. I still have one from Portugal.

17. The green ones taste like apple

18. All of them are fake souvenirs with no real value.

19. Purple are epic green are uncommon

20. The purple ones are worth double

21. I wnat the one with the hawker typhoon

22. Green ones are worth 5x more than the purple ones, and the brown ones are worth 10x more than the green ones

    Hope that clears things up for you 🙂

23. WTF is that???? 🤣

24. Yes the green ones are not worth 100€ while the purple ones are not worth 500€.

25. Absolutely there is a difference! The green ones are worth the same as the purple ones, despite having the same color.

26. Careful, with inflation these are now considered debt!

27. So is this person paying for money that is worth €0? I’m a confused European

28. This is a scam dude. They are worth nothing

29. Yes, one is worth 0 in purple the others are worth 0 but in green and orange.

30. Yes, their color

31. they’re pretty, I’d play with children using this fake money