morons driving when piss ass drunk

we used to use Maltese Lira, which was LITERALLY the strongest currency in the world before we joined the EU

volunteer forces pushing dedovshina(basically severe hazing of new recruits) on fresh conscripts

to compare it, i used exchange rates from euro to filipino pesos, and Maltese Lira to filipino pesos

one euro is around 50 pesos

back then, 1 Maltese Lira was like

over 200 pesos

but when the banks were giving people euros in exhange for their Lira, they were giving euros at a 2.2 ratio

meaning 1 lira would give you 2.2 euros from the bank

but

if i were to exchange my lira into a euro, and then into pesos, i'd only get 120 pesos worth from my lira

The biggest crime here was that they changed drachmas, we never got a true exchange in Euros and inflation hit hard

they essencially cut 80 pesos worth of currency strength when they changed from Lira into Euros

that sucks man

do you still have some drachmae?

Nop

Only euros

i'm actually curious to what they look like

I may have some hidden in the house

also my step sister kept one bill of each for the Lira

but it's unlikely

@Deleted User Thats how they looked though

is that the owl of athena or did you guys not have any of the mythology on your coins?

The owl of Athena

that's cool

i love greek mythology

It was a mix of ancient greek drachmas and heroes from 1821 (Greek war for independence against ottos)

who's the guy on the coin then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantios_Korais @Deleted User

He is called the father of modern Greece from the revolutionaries, somehow forgotten today though

purified form of the greek language?

what does that mean?

father of modern greece

i like it

It means that he removed turkish/western words from Greek words that have been assimiliated by the 400 hundred years of enslavement and paved the way to the restoration of the Greek language

oooh

that's very cool

"Das ist scheisse" - Otto Von Bismarck on modern Krautland