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(To quote the bilingual doubling in the daily exchange rate annou8ncements of AFP Radio, the music channel of the American occupying forces when I was in West Germany)

Apparently, Euro-sceptics and lazy people are still hoarding 13.6 billion D-Marks (6.95 billion Euros). Half of it in coins. The amount is reducing, but slowly: banks exchanged 158.5 million D-Mark for Euros last year.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Jan 4th, 2010 at 01:07:47 PM EST

Hoarding Deutschmarks (4.00 / 2)

I have quite a bit in Deutschmarks coinage. It's not that I'm lazy (I am), rather I'm hoarding it to exchange when the US dollar ultimately collapses.

by Magnifico on Mon Jan 4th, 2010 at 01:13:50 PM EST
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Re: Hoarding Deutschmarks (none / 0)

Why don't you exchange them for Euros? (Not that you'd have to hurry, the exchange being guaranteed for unlimited time; but I imagine making that exchange would be a bigger hussle after a dollar collapse.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Jan 4th, 2010 at 01:32:10 PM EST
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