Estonia adopted the the euro as its currency on the 1st of January 2011.
the French currency before France adopted the Euro, was the French franc. The first French francs were issued in 1360.euro
Belgium adopted the Euro in paper and coin in 2002.
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1999 was the formal introduction. Som other countries have adopted the Euro after that.
Before Italy adopted the Euro, the Italian currency was the Lira.
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The Euro is not the currency of Europe. There are about 50 countries in Europe, of which 28 are members of an organisation known as the European Union. As of the 1st of January 2014, 18 of those 28 countries use the Euro. So most European countries use their own currencies, not the Euro. The first 12 countries to use the Euro started to do so on the 1st of January 2002. The other 6 have joined since then and others will start to use it in the coming years.
16 countries have adopted the Euro, 5 other countries use the Euro with formal agreements (these are places such as the Vatican). 6 other districts or countries use the euro without formal agreement; these include Andorra - which doesn't have an official currency, and Akrotiri and Dhakalia - a British sovereign base area in Cyprus. Countries outside of Europe have adopted the euro for international transactions (an example is Cuba).
Most certainly the Euro will be the most dominant. Maybe a new currency, but the Euro has the most value.
The European Union's main currency is the Euro. All member states have adopted the Euro except for Great Britain and Denmark.
Estonia adopted the Euro as its currency on the 1st of January 2011, to become the 17th country to join the Euro.