Wednesday 27 January 2010

Small remark

It seems so natural but it's still amazing to have coins from France, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Portugal, Belgium and Italy in my pocket today.

9 comments:

Mathias Schwartz Kirkegaard said...

You should get some danish too :)

Desmond O'Toole (PES activists Dublin) said...

Those Irish coins get everywhere! Did you now that Ireland is the only state to use a musical instrument as its official emblem? Also, the harp used is of mythological significance in Ireland. It is An Dagda's harp, the pre-Christian father of all the gods! And this from a supposedly Catholic country ... LOL!

André said...

it would be interesting to quantify the "internationality" of a city by looking at the coin mix of its citizens, tourists, Erasmus students etc. etc.

Julien said...

@Andre

I suppose they are already are doing this... At least I think I've heard something like this in the past.

@Desmond

I like your harp! ;-)

@Mathias

I searched around, but there were no Danish ones. I suppose this has something to do with politics.

Mathias Schwartz Kirkegaard said...

Maybe we should get that euro instead of kroner in Denmark then :)

Anonymous said...

HA HA. Mathias, I feel rather stupid.

I Spent 20 minutes yesterday searching through my coin jar for a Danish coin.

Completely forgot Denmark isn't a euro country.

(Although, I think its being accepted in parts of Northern Irelnad now....)

Anonymous said...

^^^^Left out a line up there^^^^^

Was going to say:
'Completely forgot Denmark isn't a euro country like the UK.'

Feeling AND looking stupid now.

Mathias Schwartz Kirkegaard said...

Please continue... it's only getting more fun :)

Julien Frisch said...

:-D