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Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:01 pm
by starcapitan
in
they don't have the 1 in coins 
strange . .
I am going to search 4
and
b4 €
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:22 pm
by tabbs
Ask your parents how it was in
before 2002.
The 1000 lire coin, which I think was the highest coin denomination in circulation, was about 52 (€-)cents. In Cyprus the "biggest" coin is the 50 (£-)cents piece which is about 85 (€-)cents.
http://www.euro.cy/euro/euro.nsf/dmlind ... n?OpenForm So yes, people will have to get used to coins being worth more than twice that amount. But who knows - without the euro changeover, Cyprus might have introduced a £1 coin sooner or later anyway ...
Christian
RE tabbs
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:17 pm
by starcapitan
I have sent an e-mail to
euro.cy ( nice the
to create an euro site )asking to advertise
eurobt.eu , the no-profit site where we can track € banknotes and see their characteristic and where they have been and go !! !! It is multilanguages
do the same !! it could work
SAY IT HERE ciao
andre
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:40 pm
by androl
tabbs wrote:The current Cyprus currency is called "pound" in English but "lira" in Greek. As that Wikipedia article explains, both refer to the Latin "libra"
"pound" and "lira" both originally referred to a mass of about 500 g in the culture of the different countries with different languages. I don't believe these words are in any way etymologically linked, they just describe similar things. But as every country used to have different definitions of weight units, I also don't think that "pound" and "lira" referred to the exactly same mass. So, in my eyes, they are different things. And in today's usage, a name of a currency does not imply a "meaning", it is rather a "name". You can't really say, the pound sterling and the Italian lira have anything in common, which the German mark does not share. In English, the different "crown" currencies of the Scandinavian and Czecho-Slovak countries even have different words (IIRC crown, krone, krona), so I find it strange to "translate" pound to lira or lira to pound.
Cyprus missing
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 10:52 am
by starcapitan
I found that in
they forgot
here the
and I sent an email
what a distraction
ciao , andre
That's
!!
FORZA CIPRO
P.S. go on pushing them to advertise
eurobilltracker , it could really work in that island to spread knowledge about €
see 2 posts above !
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:43 pm
by tabbs
androl wrote:"pound" and "lira" both originally referred to a mass of about 500 g in the culture of the different countries with different languages. I don't believe these words are in any way etymologically linked, they just describe similar things.
Right, they are two etymologically unrelated terms which refer to the same weight, and later currency unit. The Latin "libra" means scales (de: Waage) while "pound" probably goes back to Latin "pondus" (en: weight, de: Gewicht). The Roman libra, as a weight, was about 330 grams. Even the mark used to be a weight unit in the Midle Ages, of about 230 g.
The "Roman based" system that Charlemagne introduced (and that the British used until the 1970s) had 1 libra/pound = 20 solidi/shillings = 240 denarii/pennies (or pence). Charlemagne's libra was about 400 grams, ie. 1 pound meant 400 g silver. Note that denarius and Pfennig, again etymologically unrelated, also refer to the same unit or coin. Back then, the Pfennig was a small silver piece.
Christian
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:09 pm
by starcapitan
Who knows what I have to put instead of XXXX in
http://www.eurobilltracker.eu/img/flags/XXXX.gif - with the first written
capital - 2 go 2 the VaticanCity and S.Marino flags,thanks a lot
ciao,andre
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:28 pm
by tabbs
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:31 pm
by starcapitan
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:59 pm
by starcapitan
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:42 pm
by starcapitan
Off-topic
I have seen that Slovakia coat of arms ( the one that is on the flag & on the 1-2 € ) is also on the car plates
also for Romania flag it's the same
and 4 the Bulgaria's one too
ciao,andre
I have met these tirs on the
Genoa-XXmiglia highway
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:08 pm
by Dakkus
Those are the old Romanian and Bulgarian plates. Now that they have joined EU, the new plates will have the EU stars in the place of the flag.
It was the same with Hungary and Poland before they joined. For Poland it took several years getting rid of its stock of old licence plates, which meant that the plates with the stars in the place of the flag are still relatively rare there.
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:34 pm
by starcapitan
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:21 am
by Yelverdack
And Switzerland also, one year later
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:47 am
by starcapitan
they read the e-mails 
) + 
& 
so 15 ,they joining ones are :
