Euro bus of the Austrian National Bank
The Euro-Bus of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank is a campaign to give the population the opportunity to easily and free of charge convert existing schilling stocks into euros and to find out about the security features of the euro notes. A competition will be held as an incentive to visit.
history
The tour through Austria during the summer months was organized for the first time in 2002 by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank . In 2007, for example, 64 cities in all nine federal states were served between June 1 and August 31 . One of the goals of the Euro-Bus is to offer Austrians in particular, but also foreign nationals, an easy way to get around 10 billion schillings (around 727 million euros ), which according to the Oesterreichischer Nationalbank are still lying around uselessly in Austrian households, in Exchange euro cash. Over 372,600 visitors have been registered for all tours of the Euro-Bus that have been carried out to date and over 272 million schillings (approximately 19.8 million euros) have been exchanged.
Schilling-euro exchange
A target group of the Euro-Bus tours are those people who have found schillings in their households, but which the banks have not exchanged, with reference to the Oesterreichische Nationalbank in Vienna or its branches in the provincial capitals. Particular attention is drawn to the possibility of exchanging banknotes, which were replaced by newly designed banknotes before the introduction of the euro and can only be exchanged by the National Bank until the end of the statutory exchange period. Since April 2018, only the last series of banknotes can be exchanged for euro cash.
On August 31, 2007, there was the last opportunity to exchange the 500 Schilling banknote (about 36 euros) with the portrait of Josef Ressel for euros. Over 360,000 of these banknotes have not yet been converted into the new currency by their owners. In 2006, special attention was paid to 100 schilling banknotes (around 7.3 euros) with the portrait of the painter Angelika Kauffmann , as this banknote lost its validity and thus its value on November 28 of the same year. 2005, also on August 31st, was the last option to exchange the 1000 Schilling banknote (about 72 euros) with the portrait of Bertha von Suttner . These banknotes were in circulation between 1970 and 1985. Around 463,000 banknotes lost their value that day.
In 2006, from 40,759 people, 61,954,036 schillings were exchanged for around 4.5 million euros. This is an average of 860,473 schillings (around 62,500 euros) per station. On the peak day of this year (August 5, 2006 at Michaelerplatz in Vienna) around 1,500 people brought around 3.57 million schillings (around 0.3 million euros) to be exchanged. The day before, the highest amount of money brought by a single person was exchanged: 311,000 schillings (about 22,600 euros). On four days in Lower Austria more than 2 million schillings (around 0.15 million euros) were exchanged per day (twice in Sankt Pölten , in Wiener Neustadt and in Baden near Vienna).
Since 2002, over 272 million schillings (about 19.8 million euros) have been exchanged in this way.
information
The main topic of the information on the subject of the "Euro" on the Euro bus is the security features with which the Euro notes are equipped to make counterfeiting more difficult . In 2006, for example, around 25,700 people were informed about it.