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A new currency in Brittany

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Follow this interesting video concerning local currencies ...

An exemple from Toulouse : THE SOL-VIOLETTE

In May, 2011, the Toulousian citizens saw being born a complementary and united currency in their city.

The opinion of some speakers

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     Desertification of small shops, relocation, unemployment, or still loss of social links, exchanges it maybe a way to regain control the economy and to make it more human. Indeed, the local currency allows to build and to protect the integrity of a territory and to open to the others by exchanging its wealth without putting itself in danger. The purpose is not to compete with the national currency but to create a complementary currency which can mitigate the deficiencies of the current monetary system become uncontrollable, in this time of economic crises.

     The complementary currencies can be divided into 2 groups
 

1. Local currencies pressed on the official currency: 1 unity = 1 €. The national currency is often placed in an ethical bank.
2. The complementary currencies not pressed on the national currency: their unity has no relationship with the official currency. The agreement of exchange of the properties or the existing services created the currency. This type of currency is not developed here.

A monetary unit is equal to an euro, which allows to use it more easily, without having to make of conversion. But that's it even which returns the interest difficult to understand.

Those who use it make it because it represents for them a way of revitalizing the local economy, because its use is restricted to a geographical zone. It allows the storekeepers who agree it to distance themselves from others and thus to attract more customers.

List and geographical setting-up of local currencies in France

The European flag is a flag decorated with twelve golden stars in five branches, one of the branches pointed upward, arranged at a distance equal in circle on field of azure. He represents the solidarity and the union between the peoples of Europe.

To thank his 13 000th visitor, Eurocol ended its update of March, 2018:
 

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In the part Commemorative, discover the new coins emitted by Member states.

On the Forum, find the part Exchanges where the doubles of the collection are listed and the coin of the moment: Auguste Rodin

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The numismatists waited for the first commemorative coin of Ireland.
She was struck in January, 2016 to 4 500 000 copies.

          If the currency goes back up at the dawn of the times, it is necessary to wait for the 7th century av. J.-C., and then the Greeks, to see the appearance of struck metallic rooms. This innovation was a turning point in the history of the money.

We call Baltic States three countries east of the Baltic Sea: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The word Baltic is used here on a geographical sense " bordering of the Baltic Sea " which concerns three countries, and not in the linguistic sense (Baltic languages which does not concern Estonia).

What became Yugoslavia ?

The group of Visegrád finds its origin in autumn, 1335, when kings of Bohemia, Poland and Hungary met in the Hungarian city of Visegrád.