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

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Saturday, December 15, 2001, 1:30
Am 15.12.01, Tristan Alexander McLeay yscrifef:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, J Y S Czhang wrote: > > > Just curious how you view the Euro currency to be implaced Jan. 1, 2002?
I love the Italian and some of the French designs. Austria / Switzerland (I forget which) are also not bad. I hear the Greek designs are good too (and are also bucking the new "tradition" by calling the small deenomination "lepton" rather than "cent". The Dutch and Irish (sad to say!!) dedsigners seem to have suffered terminal brain farts in their design "attempts". All the Irish ones will have the Harp - a nice concept, but JMJ, there's gonna be seven coin types, and you'd think they could come up with more than one design! Dutch coins have been hideously ugly for 15 years or so.
> > What a way to start the 21st Century!
Better late than never!
> > I think it's neat-0... I would love to > > get some "samples" of the Euro -
So would a lot of us (collectors)! Certainly by mid January you should be able to get all you want from either your bank or local forn exchange place (airport, train station, spaceport, etc.). You'll be hard pressed to get those from small and out of the way countries, though.
> > unlike other more mainstream numismatic > > fans, I actually like "appropriating" a-lil-used coinage & paper-currencies.
If you're looking for some from each country, and have access to Usenet, try rec.collecting.coins; you'll be able to contact folks from all over E-land willing to trade for new euros. We also have lots of European friends here on Conlang that might be willing to help!
> Are euro notes going to be paper or plastic/polymer?
As far as I'm aware, paper. The plastic would have been smarter. (Oz has polymer notes which are nearly indestructible and pretty close to uncouterfeitable.)
> Tristan
Padraic. -- Bethes gwaz vaz ha leal.

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