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

Padraic wrote:
>Am 16.12.01, Damon M. Lord yscrifef:
>
> > On 15 Dec 2001, at 14:57, Padraic Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Vatican and San Marino will also issue coins.
> >
> > I believe it's the first time the Vatican has issued currency -
> > before they used to use Italian Lira. I was also reading a report
> > that 40% of all Deutschmarks in circulation are in use outside
> > Germany, so the blackmarket in E. Europe are gonna spend some time
> > at the Euro-xchange....
>
>Actually, they've issed them all along; and the Papal States
>before that. It has the same value as the Italian lira,
>though.
>
>As for the DM, I think it's one of the Yugoslavian countries
>that, essentially, uses it as their currency (kind of like
>Ecuador and the US$). I wonder of the Central Bank took that
>sort of thing into consideration at all? There are also French
>overseas departments, as well as countries whose currencies
>are based on the French franc. It will be interesting to see
>how the experiment works out this time around.
That'd Yugoslav country would be Kosovo. Some Kosovars are evidently finding
it very funny that they're going to be "the 13th Euro country".

                                             Andreas


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