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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 29, July 15, 2001, Article 11

VOCABULARY WORD: TROUILLOTEUSE 

   Martin Purdy of New Zealand posted the following 
   query on the COINS mailing list:  "A translator friend 
   came across an article in Le Monde about French franc 
   coins being perforated when they are returned to the 
   bank in exchange for Euros, to prevent their being 
   extracted and re-exchanged elsewhere.  The device 
   used to do the perforating is called a "trouilloteuse" in 
   French;  the best option I can come up with in English 
   is "perforating machine" - is there any other term that's 
   better, or more official?" 

   A link to what I believe is the article in question (in the 
   original French) appears below.  With the help of some 
   machine translation, the gist of the article seems to be 
   as follows: 

   "An admirable word has just made its appearance in the 
   country: trouilloteuse. The word is an admirable object. 
   Clever. Definitively modern. And, let us dare say, 
   revolutionary.  The trouilloteuse is this fabulous machine 
   tasked with boring twelve holes in the surface of the old 
   franc coins. 

   In a few months now,  when it is a question of the whole 
   country exchanging old francs for the euro, a large 
   army of trouilloteuses will be put on line like combine 
   harvesters on a farm.  50,000 to 60,000 trouilloteuses 
   will be delivered to the French banks. 

   The holed coins, better perforated one hopes than the 
   ballots in Florida, will thus be effectively demonetized." 

   http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3208--189704-,00.html 

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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