| Men would turn up with hold-alls and shoeboxes piled with notes and turn them into Dutch guilders, Deutschmarks or, latterly, euros. |
| I would ask people to empty out pots and purses, and gather francs, marks, guilders, pesetas and punts and put them to work to help local people. |
| Francs, Deutschmarks, guilders, punts, drachmas and pesetas will all have gone by the end of February. |
| Within two years of such a vote, pounds and pence could be going the same way as guilders and pfennigs. |
| Men would turn up with holdalls and shoeboxes piled with notes and turn them into Dutch guilders, Deutschmarks or, latterly, euros. |
| The euro, which replaces the old francs, marks, guilders, pesetas, escudos, drachmas, and lire of the European Union, is not yet five years old. |
