Alternate names for the Euro

In my young days...

The Roman Solidus became the 'Schilling' and 'Shilling'.

...Bismarck, Napoleon and Charlemagne? Congratulations - you've mortally offended the French, Germans, Italians (especially the Men of Honour in Sicily), the Portuguese, Spaniards, Hungarians...Where do I stop?:D
 
... and it's Greek for 'urine', so that when Greece adopted it they really were "taking the piss"... :D

That's not the worst of it:

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The Roman Solidus became the 'Schilling' and 'Shilling'.

...Bismarck, Napoleon and Charlemagne? Congratulations - you've mortally offended the French, Germans, Italians (especially the Men of Honour in Sicily), the Portuguese, Spaniards, Hungarians...Where do I stop?:D

Yeah but I want currency with pictures of cool conquerors on it. If they complain then I'd pump out some Hitler-bucks to troll them further.
 
Rejected and the approved proposals for Euro banknotes: Euro banknotes designs

To compliment the rejected banknote designs, I stumbled across this site which has images of the rejected "common" side designs:

http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=3931.0

And this ECB pdf which shows the short-listed designers: http://www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/other/euro_became_our_moneyen.pdf

The jury’s shortlist was as follows:

Abstract/modern theme
1. Klaus Michel and Sanne Jünger
2. Roger Pfund
3. Robert Kalina (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)
4. Maryke Degryse (Banque Nationale de
Belgique/Nationale Bank van België)
5. Terry Thorn (Harrisons & Sons)

Ages and styles of Europe
1. Yves Zimmermann
2. Robert Kalina (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)
3. Ernst and Lorli Jünger
4. Inge Madlé (Joh. Enschedé)
5. Daniel and Johanna Bruun
 

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Gone Fishin'
That's why Norway needs to join the EU.

By the way, does anyone know if they plan to update the maps on the euro coins to reflect the enlarged EU?

That already happened, newer coins show the entire continent, not just the EURO members...
 
May I then propose "Daler"? This was the Norwegian (and Danish) currency used in the period 1544 - 1875. It literally means "Valley's" or "From the valley's). I think Dollar originally derived from Daler. So then we could claim that the European Daler really is not subordinate to the US Dollar, as the Daler is the older name ... And we could get this positive, up-beat name-recognition :) Same as Slovenia did when they introduced the "Tolar" as their first currency after independence in the 1990ies (if I remember correct)

Or we could just use some form of "money". The first Norwegian currency, first created by Olav the Holy in 995, was called "Penning", meaning just "money". This was in use in the years 995 - 1387. Then there was 150 years of monetary chaos due to an unstable union with Denmark, and much rebellions and such. Before the "Daler" came in 1544. Usually the Daler had an officiall pre-name like "Riks" ("National") or "Specie" ("Special"). Then we threw out the Daler and introduced "Krone" ("Crown") in 1875.

The really funny thing with having a European Daler, would be the fact that Norway is not a member of EU and is massively against joining any kind of common currency :D

The Daler was drived from Taler - the latter is from the 14th century...

The Slovenian Tolar also is basically "Taler".
Daler, Tolar and Dollar all derive from the German Thaler. Thaler is the short form of "Joachimsthaler". "Joachimsthal" was the German name of the Czech town of Jachymov, where silver was mined from the 16th century onwards, and a coin of the name "Joachimsthaler" was minted. "Tal" means "valley" in German, and the old spelling is "Thal". "Joachimsthal" means "valley of Saint Joachim".
 
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