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Old 20-09-2012, 02:24 PM
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I saw what you did LOL

This is much deeper than I ever knew.

I looked up lira notes to get more history, and to my astonishment found that Lira meant, originally and literally, "pound" (of silver, like the English unit did). Of course it wasn't worth that much by the time the Euro arrived.

To quote Wikipedia " in some countries, such as Cyprus and Malta, the words lira and pound were used as equivalents"

"Scientia potentia est" eh?

Cheers
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