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I've been in the eurozone since it started.. only ever saw 500 euro bills being exchanged in casinos.

I exchanged cash in Canada before heading to EU for 10 weeks and the kiosk gave me all EUR500 notes and said it was all they had.

Russian mafia has to liquidate somehow.

Ya, it’s a real mess, especially if you can’t break/spend them all.

At least I learned that France has several central banks.

You’re kinda SOL if you go to a euroized non-EU country (Montenegro or Kosovo).

And yet across the border, I've been given a CHF1000 note cashing a deposit slip in a post office.