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Re: CHAT: San Marino

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 23, 2000, 17:32
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote:

>Leo Caesius wrote: > >> San Marino is undoubtedly the oldest Republic in Europe. It was also >> the only country in the West to become Communist for a brief period... you >> don't need a visa to visit San Marino from Italy, and if you want them to >> stamp your passport, it will cost you (10,000 lire, IIRC).
>Which is to say 5.37 euros (yes, "euros"; English is not German) or US$4.82. >Not too outrageous.
Actually E5.16 (or $US4.63). Gets cheaper all the time! :)
>Is San Marino part of the euro zone? I suppose it must be.
Technically no (nor Vatican, Monaco, Andorra, etc.) I think Vatican and San Marinerian lire are legally tied to the Italian lira; so either they will continue to use lire (at L1 = E0.0005) or else they will make (currently) unofficial euros. I kind of hope they will, as the Italian designs truly kick European arse. :) (See <www.rsip.lsu.edu/tom/euro/>) The Greek designs can be seen at <http://www.bankofgreece.gr/en/euro/coins.htm>. The only other country that comes close is Austria; and God only knows what Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg were thinking. The 12 countries are: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal. On an interesting linguistic note, Greece is the only country that will retain a national name for one of the denominations. They will have euros (evro) like everyone else; but will have lepta (s. lepto') in stead of cents. Padraic.
> >-- >Anyway, governments are marginal || John Cowan <jcowan@...> >outside totalitarian states, though || http://www.reutershealth.com >attention is always focused on them || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan >to direct it away from what matters. \\ -- Noam Chomsky (1995) >