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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2678981, member: 39&quot;]Ah, so that is the connection. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Thanks!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now that is a different story. As you know, the euro was &quot;born&quot; on 1 January 1999, but the conversion, so to say, took three years. Some countries such as France and Germany started producing the euro circulation coins in mid/late 1998 - France and some others decided to use 1999 (the start of the euro currency*) as the first year on the coins; Germany and some others picked 2002 (when the euro cash became legal tender). There were a couple of local/regional &quot;euro&quot; issues too, but those were mostly souvenir pieces ...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Just looked those up in my catalog. Those three ECU pieces were issued by the Irish central bank, symbolic face value, and not legal tender.</p><p><br /></p><p>(* Stocks for example have been traded in EUR since that day, and euro based non-cash transactions were possible in those three years too.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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