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

Quoting Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:

> Thomas Wier wrote:
> >Quoting Padraic Brown <agricola@...>:
> >
> > > 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$).
> >
> >Actually, the official currency of Ecuador *is* the US dollar.
> >Last year, they changed over from a 1-to-1 rate peg to full
> >dollarization.  (Argentina's been thinking about doing the same
> >thing for a couple years.) As for the former Yugoslavia, my
> >impression is that they just have useless official currency,
> >and so most of nonbartered trade occurs in German Marks (or
> >to a lesser extent, US dollars).
>
> Still assuming that you're talking about Kosovo (an Western
> protectorate that in diplomatic fiction still belongs to
> Yugoslavia), no, the official currency is the euro, but until
> the euro coins and notes turns up at the New Year they're
> using DM as legal tender.
Actually, I was thinking more of Bosnia, also _de facto_ a
Western protectorate.  And Croatia.  (I have seen the official
Bosnian currency before, so I know they have one. I don't
know if it's pegged in a 1-to-1 ratio to some foreign currency
like DMs or US dollars, though.)

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