Re: OT: coins (Was: Types of numerals)
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 7, 2006, 20:03 |
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On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:58:55 -0500, R A Brown <ray@...>
wrote:
> {quote}
> The ECU was [...] made up of the sum of fixed amounts of the 12 national
> currencies of the Member States of the European Union at the time of the
> signature of the Maastricht Treaty in February 1992. {/quote}
The question remains as to how a selection of European currencies were
spontaneously weighted to coincidentally end up close to the US dollar.
I don't know where to find out what the dollar:ECU rate was in February
1992, though, and that might clarify the issue one way or the other.
Paul