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

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Saturday, December 22, 2001, 7:47
Padraic Brown wrote:
> It makes sense as inflation rises rapidly. Latin American > countries are famous for revaluing currencies this way.
Not with the same physical tokens, surely?
> Turkey did one recently; Russia has done a couple since > the late 80s. Italy will be doing one in about a week.
Isn't Italy in the Euro zone? Israel, i think, has had at least two since the late Seventies. France in the Fifties(?) adopted a new franc, popularly the `franc lourd'.
> One day you have 50.000.000 cuatros in your pocket; next > day they get exchanged at 500.000:1 and the teller gives > you 100 nuevos pistoles. Your grandfather probably remembers > when the cuatro bought a thousand old reales.
`cuatro', sennor? como "Cuesta cinco cuatros"? -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/

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