Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 22, 2001, 15:54 |
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Am 21.12.01, Anton Sherwood yscrifef:
> 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?
Sometimes, yes. You can find paper money (doesn't work well
with coin, but it has been done) that is overprinted with a new
value.
>
> > 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?
Yep! Hence their upcomming "revaluation".
> > 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"?
Ad hoc names. Insert the pesos, reis, cruzados, pesetas,
soles, intis, etc. of choice.
Padraic.
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