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

Anton Sherwood wrote:

> eh?  "legal tender" means that it must, by law, be accepted in payment
> of debts; if you owe me a debt in pounds, and offer me payment in
> dollars, I can refuse it but (under US law) you are then discharged.
IIRC, there are (or used to be) limits on the number of coins that
are legal tender: old pennies were legal tender only to the amount
of 1s, so nobody *had* to accept more than twelve of them.

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