...Euros purchased in october of 2000 are still worth 150% their cost. (That was when a Euro was about .82 cents) A few months ago was a sweet time to move old Euros. When the rate climbs back up to 1.38 dollars to Euro, after some bad news released by the Fed or the stock market - then it will be time to move them again.

In terms of speculation, there are far riskier investments and one gets to try and collect all the various nations unique Euro obverse currency.

On a different "note"... have you (or anyone else here) ever been passed counterfeit US money by their bank? It seems there is a plague of bogus 50 and 100 dollar bills out there. Some apparently slip by even the banks currency counters which are supposed to detect them. What's worse is when one's bank refuses to accept culpability. One ends up biting the loss.

That could get expensive after a while.

;-)