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06-10-2007, 01:39 AM
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Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint
 
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Ancient Coinage
Would anyone here happen to know what currency they used in the Balkans about 120 years ago?
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06-10-2007, 09:26 AM
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Goddess for Life
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From what I can tell from poking around in Wikipedia, it looks like the borders were pretty fluid then, with a lot of influency by the Russians and Turks. If there was a common currency, it was probably one of those. Beyond that, you'd have to pick a country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histori...lkan_Peninsula
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06-10-2007, 04:45 PM
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Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint
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Oh my! I see that this question is even more complicated than I anticipated!
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06-10-2007, 08:28 PM
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Well, I had fun reading about Florence Nightengale, the Crimean War, and other matters Balkan related this morning. Good question!
P.S. They ain't called the Balkans for nothing... |
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06-10-2007, 09:43 PM
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Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint
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Yeah, ain't the Wikipedia fun?
I'm beginning to understand how people were able to make huge fortunes just by trading currencies that were out of balance. I suspect that such opportunities are rare in the days of computers, though. It would be too easy to write a computer program that constantly monitors exchange rates, looks for imbalances, and automatically does trades. |
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06-20-2007, 08:53 AM
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You mean an electronic version of the Midas Formula?
Very, very, bad Karma in that one. |
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06-20-2007, 09:18 AM
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Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint
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What is the Midas Formula?
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