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Tuesday, 1 January, 2002, 17:17 GMT
In pictures: Euro hits the streets
The euro has made a sensational debut across the 12 countries of the eurozone. Thousands of people queued at banks to get their hands on the new currency - and then went out to spend it.
![]() The queue for euros at the Bank of Spain in Madrid stretched out the door
![]() It was the same story at the Central Bank of Ireland in Dublin
![]() While in Paris, there was a separate queue at the Eiffel tower for customers paying in euros
![]() Some people paid in old currencies, and got change in euros
![]() But payments were also made in euros, as at this Paris cafe...
![]() ... this outdoor restaurant in Rome...
![]() ...a donut stand in Maastricht, the Netherlands...
![]() ... and a Dublin newsagents, where the customer was Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern
![]() This waitress at a bar in Maastricht carried a converter in her breast pocket
![]() And this trumpeter at a Munich beer hall received a handsome tip in the new currency
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