Great idea totx.
Giving the gift of money, who would have thunk it
That reminds me, I was just out this morning and I went into a bank and got some of the first real euro coins available. As you all may know, we can buy bags of sets of euro coins as of this past Friday. They are bieng sold to get people used to touching the stuff
As usual, I have included a photo in the link below, I even time stamped the photo so we know it is before Jan. 1, 2002
* CLICK HERE FOR A PHOTO OF SOME OF THE FIRST REAL EUROS* CLICK HERE FOR THE JEREMY'S FIRST EUROS VIDEO (800KB high quality .MPEG video clip)
I must admit, it was super W.E.I.R.D. touching the new coins for the very first time today. It was pretty neat but I already miss the peseta
On a side note, they were brand spanking new and after only a few minutes of handling them, they began to tarnish bigtime. Just goes to show that "no es oro todo lo que reluce" ("all that glitters is not gold").
Saludos,
jer...
p.d. You can learn more about the euro and money in Spain on my Spain money matters page at
www.multimadrid.com/practical_info/spain_money.htm
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