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

> Am 22.12.01, Anton Sherwood yscrifef:
> > If it's overprinted, it's not the same token;
Padraic Brown wrote:
> Bugger around with semantics all you like. If you INSIST on
> playing games, there are cases where the overprints aren't
> necessary.
Right, where the value of the token is unchanged:

> I gave the example of Britsh shillings and florins
> continuing to circulate after D-Day but with new values.  Old
> Mexican pesos (the peso just before the most recent revaluation
> of the early 90s) can apparently still be used (at a thousand
> to one).
A shilling coin was formerly worth 1/20 of a pound, afterward worth 1/20
of a pound.  A new peso, if I understand right, was worth a thousand old
pesos at the moment of revaluation; and now, an old thousand-peso note
is worth one new peso.  Call me thick: I can't see the "new values".

You could bring up the unusual case of the Ostmark, which got a big
boost in value when the BRD chose to honor it as equal to the DM.

I don't insist on playing games, but thanks anyway for your effort.


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