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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BillM" data-source="post: 4366287" data-attributes="member: 45785">Europe uses the Euro now, instead of national currencies. I was in Germany in early to mid 90's and most of the German coins were steel. Deutsche Marks. And after decades of the exchange rate being DM3.5 to the dollar, it dropped to where it was DM1.30 to the Dollar. Most of the young guys I worked with had their car payments about triple. Outside of Europe, was also stationed in Turkey, and for a short time, (Desert Shield/Desert Storm) in Saudi Arabia. Most Turkish coins then (the 80's) were stamped in aluminum. And were for tiny amounts. At that time, a dollar was worth 186 Turkish Lira. Back in the day, ie., prior to WW1, one lira was a silver coin. Shortly before I got there in 83, their small change coins, kurush, were withdrawn from circulation. They were mostly cupronickle, and were decimal fractions of a lira. IIRC, 5, 10, 25 & 50 kurush. Like our nickels and such. Old Turkish coins in silver were selling for more than face value because they were silver...  Turkey has been doing the hyperinflation thing for much of the past 80-100 years, now. Bet your (and my!) Turkish coins are worth a fraction of a Turkish Lira. Went to Aldi the other day, and traded carts with a lady who was having trouble getting her coin back. Which she was happy to do. When I returned it, found her coin wasn't a quarter. It was a 1 Euro coin. Looks like Cupronickel ring with a brass or bronze insert in the middle. Exchange rate that day was $1.06 per Euro. So I made money off the deal. <img src="/images/smilies/new/laugh6.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":laugh6:" title="Laugh6    :laugh6:" data-shortname=":laugh6:" />When I was a kid, my dad had stacks of DM50,000 notes. I asked why we weren't rich. They were Reich Notes from Wiemar Germany, and folks would need a wheelbarrow full of them to buy a loaf of bread, One of his great uncles brought them with him when he moved here from Germany after WWI, and before WWII. They were the wrong size to make good toilet paper.</blockquote>

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