Old Currency before the Euro

[amethyst]

The Spanish Pesata
Italian Lira
French Francs

[Mulletino]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

Used to be ace going abroad and changing your money into a currency that gave you 1000000 to the pound. Felt like a millionaire.

[amethyst]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

Used to be ace going abroad and changing your money into a currency that gave you 1000000 to the pound. Felt like a millionaire.

Was it Turkey or Thailand

[Richard1978]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

I remember even knowing the rough exchange rates for a pound.

10 Francs

3 Marks

200 Pasatas

2000 Lira

300 Dracmas (this was about 500 by the time the Greeks signed up to the Euro)

2 Million Turkish Lira (they chopped 6 zeros off a few years ago)

[Twocky61]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

Irish Punts & Spanish Peseta's

[Richard1978]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

My Dad had a box of coins he had picked up over the years from holidays & business trips.

Portuguese Escudos, where the coins had no head side.

East German Ostmarks, which used aluminium for the lower value coins.

Austrian Schillings.

Soviet Kopeks & Roubles.

Polish Zloty.

Hungarian Florint.

Yugoslavian Dinar.

[darren]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

italian lira

[darren]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

THE OLD CURRENCIES ARE LOVELY I THINK EACH COUNTRY LOST A PART OF ITS IDENTITY WHEN GIVING UP THERE CURRENCY.

SPANISH PESETAS

[darren]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

GERMAN DEUTSCHE MARK

[amethyst]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

You always found you were left with small coins coming home

[amethyst]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

I remember the spanish peseta was similar to our pound coin,many a time I ended up with a peseta with the pound coins change.So I did the same pass them on to someone else

[battyrat]

Re: Old Currency before the Euro

Kids had so much fun collecting coins before the euro came in. On holiday finding a penny shove machine was like hitting the jackpot in a seaside town as you could add a handful of low value European coins to you collection almost overnight. And it was also so much fun trying to get that French franc you wanted amongst all those horrid English 1p pieces.