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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 205253, member: 39&quot;]The Isle of Man is not a euro country/area. But just as the IoM issued &quot;ecu&quot; pieces in the mid-1990s, it used the name &quot;euro&quot; on some pieces in the late 90s. All this before the euro actually came into existence on 1-Jan-1999 ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Those Manx ecus and euros are indeed &quot;coins&quot; in the sense that they were issued by the same government that issues the plethora of other IoM pieces. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The face value of such a thing, however, was determined by the value of the European Currency Unit, ie. the ECU/Pound exchange rate. In late March 1998, for example, 1 ECU was £0.653644 ... Sounds very practical to me, hehe, but at least those Manx ecus/euros had a &quot;guaranteed&quot; value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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