From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Sun Jul 21 2002 - 23:24:45 MDT
>Coins travel in mysterious ways.
That's what makes the Euro diffusion fun. I was thinking mathematically
how to model it before I saw those links. Even without the math, the
idea sparks the imagination; reminders of childhood Marco Polo-like
fantasies.
>In pre-Euro Germany, they drained
> from the North to the South,
Maybe still moving this way. I think that the diffusion rate
is low. I don't have many 'foreign' Euros found from general German
circulation, even though I make most daily transactions in cash.
But we'll see after summer.
For Germany, perhaps I'm a 'mixer'. When I travel, I keep some
representative coins and release the rest into circulation when
I return. There's a just a few Euros I don't have now, such as
>Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican basically sold their coins
>straight to collectors. You are unlikely to ever encounter one in
>circulation.
For what it's worth, even the shop keepers in Rome have difficulty
finding Vatican Euros.
(she says, kicking herself, because she was in Monaco and Vatican
during the last 1/2 yr and didn't think (!) to make some purchases.....)
> > (All of the euro notes look the same.)
>
> Most people seem to be unaware of this, but you can readily tell
> the country of original issue from the first letter of the serial
> number.
Thanks for the 'heads up' :-)
Amara
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