#11252 - Mon Dec 24 2001 09:47 PM
Currency quizzes (and others)
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At the risk of being a bore - especially at this time of year - this is just to remind everyone that with effect from 1.1.2002 the Euro will be *the* currency of: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. If all goes according to plan, the old national currencies will be out of circulation by 1st March 2002. This is of relevance not only to currency quizzes but also a fair range of others, too.
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#11253 - Wed Dec 26 2001 12:50 AM
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Thanks as here in France we're in the throes of the change...that's why I don't get the holiday off except for Christmas day itself.
The switchover is coming rapidly upon us.
Any coin collectors, each country will issue its own Euros, and I just saw a packet of Monaco ones...didn't know they'd do it. They usually use French currency, issue a few coins of their own, and then you can't use those outside of the Nice Monaco area.
It's going to effect stamp collectors I imagine too, as the denomination is going to be in Euros, but issued by the individual countries.
Yes! I collect stamps, so what?
Can you imagine the textbooks being remade? We had a meeting at the school about it...the teachers are stressed out. My son is used to dollars so he has no problem, money is money!
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#11254 - Tue Dec 25 2001 02:24 PM
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: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.
Isn't Great Britain changing? How come?
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#11255 - Tue Dec 25 2001 02:31 PM
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More sense  We are kicking and screaming trying to resist the European takover.
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#11256 - Tue Dec 25 2001 02:57 PM
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actually, 3 countries are even quicker : Ireland, Germany and France have taken a shorter period for the conversion. I think the deadline is 14 februari inthere... Yes, it's fast and it will be a big change for us (and am I the only one who finds the coins so ugly?)
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#11257 - Tue Dec 25 2001 03:06 PM
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Just keep some record of current prices, watch the inflation. I haven't forgotten the changeover to decimal currency in the UK on 15th February 1971, many lower priced items more or less doubled in price overnight, traders took advantage of the confusion to raise their prices. The conversion rate was 2.4 old pence to one new, there were twelve old pennies to the shilling (now five pence), an item costing 1 shilling and 8 pence would be written as 1/8 in 'old money', some traders just removed the / and called it new pence. 1/8 was 20 old pennies, suddenly it became 18 new pence which was 43.3 old pennies.... clever.
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#11258 - Tue Dec 25 2001 03:09 PM
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The Italians aren't unhappy about it as the Lira, well let's put it this way, my way of converting is how many Lira for an ice cream? It's about 3000 for a good one.
Three bills...and the figures are high. So it's about 2 Euros..or did I do it wrong?
The Brits are going to go kicking and screaming...the Germans are going begrudgingly and are not happy with the looks either.
The bills make up for the coins. They're pretty.
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#11259 - Tue Dec 25 2001 03:34 PM
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The French currency was attractive anyway, as for the Italian currency, it made people feel so wealthy and it is the only country where I have received a sweet (candy) in my change The euro will affect us too, many of our shops accept French currency at present so will need to do the conversion to euros instead. If the UK changes to the euro we will have to as well and as we are not part of the EU that will cause uproar. We already have inequality, all EU nationals have the right to live and work in Jersey but 'true' Jersey people do not have the right to live and work elsewhere in the EU other than in the UK.
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#11261 - Sat Jan 05 2002 02:40 PM
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We have a Euro thread up in the commons about mistakes that happen to all of us. And the aches and pains of the changeover.
I am just going to add a pretty funny one with my savvy kids being in the forefront of the switchover.
The Italians are the holdouts right now. I checked last weekend, two days before the switch and the cashiers were all looking harried.
The currency exchange people are virtually going out of business if they are on a border between two Euro countries.
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#11262 - Sun Jan 06 2002 04:28 AM
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I think what Bloomsby is trying to say is that anyone out there who has created a quiz that mentions the 'old' currency should now be editing to avoid any complaints that may come in. The same applies if you happen to complete a quiz, let the creator know but in a very gentle way, it may simply have been overlooked. Cheers
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