I'm doing a school project on economic changes in Spain and I need exact dates. I remember my grandmother still keeps some old coins, but I'm not really sure when the official changeover was.
The official changeover was January 1, 2002, when the euro entered circulation and the peseta stopped being legal tender. After that there was a transition period where both circulated together, but from 2002 onwards we were completely on euros.
The euro entered circulation on January 1, 2002, and from that day on the peseta ceased to be legal tender, although there was a transition period where both briefly coexisted. For your work, that's the key date: 2002.
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