The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 47, November 2, 2003, Article 9

NOSTALGIC GERMANS

  On Wednesday, October 29, the Reuters news service
  reported that: "Almost two years after the introduction of the
  euro, nostalgic Germans are hoarding some 25 billion
  Deutschmark coins -- worth about $4.2 billion -- as souvenirs.

  The number of coins being held is about half the 49 billion
  Deutschmark coins in circulation just before the single
  European currency was launched in January 2001, said
  Bundesbank spokeswoman Gabriele Reitz-Werner on Tuesday."

  http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=3714202

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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