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Dik T. Winter wrote: On the other hand I have in my collection rag-notes from countries that have (and had) no real value at all. I still have a few 50=A2 notes from Jamaica when the exchange rate to the US dollar was J$0.88=3DUS$1.00 (about 1974). Last time I was there, in January, the exchange rate was US$1.00=3DJ$62.00, making the notes value US$0.008, almost 1 cent. In 1974 the largest bill was J$10.00, and I can remember the introduction of the J$10, J$20, J$50 and J$100. Now the most common bill is J$500 with quite a few J$1000 in circulation. It boggles the mind buying a beer for J$300, but it sure is fun playing poker. "See your $100 and raise you another $100". I use the J$100 bill for a bookmark, cheaper than buying a bookmark and has a lot more class. The J$20 coin is bimetallic and the J$10 coin has a scalloped edge, both neat coins. |
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Dik T. Winter wrote:
Has Austria gotten out of that discussion? Guess that some in Austria would not mind, or even welcome, having low value notes. But I suppose that, first, they have gotten used to the coins, and second, they do not expect rag euros to solve any country specific problems. I find it interesting that quite a few of the new member nations already circulate coins that are in excess of 1 (or even 2) Euro. As did DE and NL until early 2002 g. Guess the gap between 2 and 5 euro was a little wide to also make a 5 euro coin. Well, I realize that the current setup was a compromise accepted a couple of years ago, and it does not make much sense to discuss the coins/notes "setup" every couple of weeks :-) However, if the governments of two Mediterranean countries want low value notes so desperately that despite various comments and final decisions of the ECB they demand them again and again, we should also think about higher value coins. They would be fine with me. Christian |
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Padraic Brown wrote:
I wonder how much of that is Germans and French realising that they are giving up their very own countries -- Germany's ability to direct Germany's policies -- piecemeal. I think this is one reason why the Brits have restrained from the euro -- they still have what we like to call a national backbone. ))) Well, if you join a union (European Union, a currency union, etc.), you do of course give up some of your "national sovereignty". That is how such unions work. The rules of a club may well change with the times, but don't join a club if you do not intend to play by its rules anyway g. Is that really so? Is it so binding that Greece couldn't choose to pull out? Not saying they would, mind! The European currency is part of the EU's acquis communautaire like pretty much the rest of EU law. Which means a joining country cannot simply pick some rules it likes to adhere to, and state it will ignore some others. Now we all know that rules are there to be dealt with flexibly ;-) So I suppose that, if a member state wants to leave the European Union, it will ultimately do so even though - since the Constitution was rejected due to the Dutch and French votes - there is no "legal" path of doing so. Similarly, if a country wants to stay or get out of the currency union, there will be a way ... Christian |
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gogu wrote:
Christian, I've read lately that even the Germans are asking for their Mark back not to mention the French ! Sure, and others blame the European Union for the effects of globalization, and thus voted against the Constitution ... and others, particularly in DE, say that our economy would still be "healthy" if the Eastern German states had not joined the Federal Republic 15 years ago. You will always have people who say that "back then, things were better". And if someone gets "hit" by various extreme price increases, he or she is likely to ignore the fact that the overall price increase as expressed in the inflation rate has been at a record low since the introduction of the euro cash. Well, maybe these people hope that those businesses that abused the cash changeover for price hikes (and yes, there were quite a few such cases!) will not do so if the cash is replaced by new cash once again. Huh? ;-) So it's not only the Greeks, the Italians, the French or the Germans but -I believe- every older person in euroland. The difference is that, in terms of government "requests", it is only the Greek and the Italians that try changing the coins/notes setup again and again. (In the first years, it was also the Austrian government that wanted them.) After some consideration, the ECB decided about half a year ago to not introduce such low value notes. From the 18-Nov-2004 press release: | In particular, the insufficient demand for very low denomination | banknotes by the majority of euro area citizens, the increased | inefficiency the introduction would imply for most of the affected | third parties, for instance the retail sector and the vending machine | industry, and the high costs of printing and processing support the | Governing Council's decision on this issue. But only a couple of weeks later the Greek minister Dimitris Sioufas and the Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi demanded low value notes again ... Maybe it would help if GR and IT issued such rag euros themselves, which would then (just as the ¤5, ¤10, etc. collector coins) be legal tender in the issuing country only? Christian |
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? "Padraic Brown" ?????? ??? ??????
... On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 03:04:28 +0300, "gogu" wrote: One euro is one euro, regardless of whether it's a coin or a bill. Yeah, that's why Americans dislike the coin dollars and prefer to use the dollar bills...In your line of logic they must be stupid, too ;-) Actually, it ìs stupid. :-) As Jesus said: "you said it" ;-))) Americans don't like dollar coins because they are a nuisance. So, why Europeans should not feel the same nuisance for their one euro coins ?... My pocket is some times so heavy that it makes it a hole ;-) There's not enough of them to really make a dent, even for those of us who would want to use them. Commerce refuses to actually use them, despite banks who have "Got golden dollars" posters and Wal Mart 'promotions' when the thing was first introduced. They're a nuisance because there is still the more familiar ragbuck in common use and is numerically FAR more numerous than the coins. ! That's what I said about the old European currencies ! We all are used with our "old" money, so... Just think what would happen if Americans would change their currency with a *totally* new one like the euro !... If we had no real choice but the dollar coin, we would "like" them as much as any of the other uninspired currency types we've got. Well, this is happening with Europeans but it will take some times for the older people to accustom with the new currency. I don't see something unusual to this... If people are having trouble transitioning from drachmas to euros, that's another story. I fail to see how using a bill or a coin is going to help there. Then pray tell why Americans prefer to use the bill instead of the coin ?... Been addressed here lots of times. Americans dó like the dollar coin My experience from a couple of threads here and from articles is different; Americans dislike the dollar coin but they use it because they can't refuse it. -- very rare indeed is the experience where people actually DISlike the dollar coin. We don't really "prefer" to use the dollar note -- it's simply the only viable choice we have at present, unless we specifically hunt down and seek out dollar coins. And anyway, we're not using a new currency system! I think his point is how would a ?1.oo note help the Greeks any more than a ?1.oo coin when the whole system is all new? I have explained it how. But as I also said, many people in the EU feel this way and not only the Greeks are asking for a euro note... Why should they start making low-denomination bills just because Greece didn't keep up with their own money system and kept ridiculously-low bills in circulation? Italy had even lower denominations but I see that you are not protesting about "stupid" Italians... I think he mentioned Italy. His quote is just above mine here, no Italy. Maybe in another paragraph. Spain had small denominations quite like Greece. Smallest peseta note denomination (as of 10 years ago when I was there) was 1000. They had replaced the 200 and 500 pta notes with coins by then -- the equivalent of about ?2 and ?5 -- even better than present system, which offers a ?5 note rather than a coin. I am a Greek and I feel like that, so I must be stupid :-)... Well, how would a one euro note help you come to grips with the new system in a way that the present one euro coin can't? The point is not that the euro note will help me the way you say, it will just make people "feel" better the value of the money ! Speaking as one of those reviled Merkins, I had absolutely no difficulty with going from US$ to Spanish pesetas. I had no choice. And I have lived for years abroad, so I never had a problem with any foreign currency. But here we are not talking about me and you, we are talking about entire countries, with many older persons... I guess the best thing you lot in general can do is 1) suck it up and 2) get over it. The drachma is gone, along with the peseta and lira. Stop thinking in terms of drachmas and you'll be perfectly at home with euros in about a week. ??? Who said that I believe to a come back ?! I know that euro is here to stay, so I don't understand you above quote... I was jut talking about how people feel generally, not me ! A nice weekend to you, too... -- E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi puttane! F.d.A Coins, travels and mo http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html http://www.romclub.4t.com/rabin.html Padraic. la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. |
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? "Padraic Brown" ?????? ??? ??????
... On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 03:08:02 +0300, "gogu" wrote: So it's not only the Greeks, the Italians, the French or the Germans but -I believe- every older person in euroland. That doesn't make any sense -- the older generation of Europeans more than any other generation ought to be USED to currency change overs! Octogenarian Germans should remember the last gasp of the Weimar marks, 3rd Reich marks, post-war deutchmarks/marks. The euro should be a slice of cake for them. The French should also remember pre-war and post-war francs plus that change (I think in the 1960s) from old to new francs. And they had great problems in doing that ! I still remember 10 or 20 years ago some older people having difficulties with the ... kilogram system here ! They were used with the ocha/dramia system (Turkish) and until they died they never fully understood the "new" system :-) They had always to transform the kilos to ochas and the grams to dramia :-))) But I agree with you: "the game will go on and on" but there is no chance to go back to the old currencies. Euro is here to stay. Is that really so? Is it so binding that Greece couldn't choose to pull out? Not saying they would, mind! This is nonsense ! Not Greece nor any other euroland country will pull out of the EMU. That would be a disaster for their economies. And you can't reform your monetary system in, say a couple of months and go back to your older currency. From my own experience they are *only* the older people to protest against the euro. -- E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi puttane! F.d.A Coins, travels and mo http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html http://www.romclub.4t.com/rabin.html Padraic. la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu. |
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? "Christian Feldhaus" ?????? ??? ??????
d... gogu wrote: Christian, I've read lately that even the Germans are asking for their Mark back not to mention the French ! Sure, and others blame the European Union for the effects of globalization, Well, that's stupid ! So it's not only the Greeks, the Italians, the French or the Germans but -I believe- every older person in euroland. The difference is that, in terms of government "requests", it is only the Greek and the Italians that try changing the coins/notes setup again and again. (In the first years, it was also the Austrian government that wanted them.) After some consideration, the ECB decided about half a year ago to not introduce such low value notes. From the 18-Nov-2004 press release: The reality is that nothing will change whatever various governments will ask for. At this point and for the shake of the truth, let's say that this was not an *official* demand from the Greek government but just an idea of a minister... | In particular, the insufficient demand for very low denomination | banknotes by the majority of euro area citizens, the increased | inefficiency the introduction would imply for most of the affected | third parties, for instance the retail sector and the vending machine | industry, and the high costs of printing and processing support the | Governing Council's decision on this issue. But only a couple of weeks later the Greek minister Dimitris Sioufas and the Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi demanded low value notes again ... Maybe it would help if GR and IT issued such rag euros themselves, which would then (just as the ¤5, ¤10, etc. collector coins) be legal tender in the issuing country only? I disagree. The euro system must be the same along whole euroland. A nice weekend to everybody ! -- E' mai possibile, oh porco di un cane, che le avventure in codesto reame debban risolversi tutte con grandi puttane! F.d.A Coins, travels and mo http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/golanule/my_photos http://gogu.enosi.org/index.html http://www.romclub.4t.com/rabin.html Christian |
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gogu wrote:
Sure, and others blame the European Union for the effects of globalization, Well, that's stupid ! Agreed. But people sometimes prefer stupid theories over more complex explanations g. At this point and for the shake of the truth, let's say that this was not an *official* demand from the Greek government but just an idea of a minister... Of course any minister is free to make such suggestions - and Mr Sioufas has done that numerous times in the past weeks/months, but it would have been helpful to read what the position of the Greek government is in that regard. When two ministers from the Italian populist and anti-EU party "Lega Nord", Mr Maroni and Mr Calderoli, recently even suggested replacing the euro with a national currency in Italy, Mr Berlusconi's quick response was a No. Well, I am sure that somebody like Berlusconi will change his mind quickly once he sees an opportunity of winning elections by bashing EUrope ;-) But at least we now know that the position of the Lega Nord is not shared by the other coalition parties. Maybe it would help if GR and IT issued such rag euros themselves, which would then (just as the ¤5, ¤10, etc. collector coins) be legal tender in the issuing country only? I disagree. The euro system must be the same along whole euroland. That is what I would have said too. But the Dutch 5 euro coins or the German 10 euro pieces, for example, are collector coins which can be had at face value. Thus they (theoretically g) circulate but in the issuing country only. If a similar deal could be made regarding low value notes, that could address Mr Sioufas's concerns ... Christian |
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In article "gogu" writes:
.... Americans don't like dollar coins because they are a nuisance. So, why Europeans should not feel the same nuisance for their one euro coins ?... My pocket is some times so heavy that it makes it a hole ;-) I do not feel a nuisance at all. Currently I have exactly three coins in my purse (1 euro, 50 cent and 20 cent). (Yes, I am using a purse that contains all my money, it is about the size of a small key holder, and sits perfectly well in my pocket. No loose change in my pockets.) Just think what would happen if Americans would change their currency with a *totally* new one like the euro !... Consider what happened in the UK when they were going decimal (1970 I think). I have seen it from close quarters. If we had no real choice but the dollar coin, we would "like" them as much as any of the other uninspired currency types we've got. Well, this is happening with Europeans but it will take some times for the older people to accustom with the new currency. I don't see something unusual to this... I see something unusual in this in the Greek and Italian government requiring small denomination notes. But as I also said, many people in the EU feel this way and not only the Greeks are asking for a euro note... No, the Greek and the Italian. I do not think that the Dutch, German, or whatever would appreciate the introduction of a Euro note. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/ |
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In article "gogu" writes:
Ï "Dik T. Winter" Ýãñáøå óôï ìÞíõìá ... In article "gogu" writes: .... So it's not only the Greeks, the Italians, the French or the Germans but -I believe- every older person in euroland. I think I figure in the group of older persons. No, I do not want back the old currency. I never said that *all* older persons do want that Dik ;-) You said, explicitly, *every* older person in euroland. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/ |
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