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Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)

From:<bjm10@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 17:16
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Anton Sherwood wrote:

> Christophe Grandsire wrote: > > French "écu" comes from the Old French word for "shield": "escu". > > (Latin <scutum>) > > > Why it became used for coins I don't know, . . . > > Presumably they showed the royal coat-of-arms.
Let's see, we have the ecu for France, the escudo for Spain and Portugal, the shilling for England, the scudo for Italy, so I'd blame it on Charlemagne.