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IIRC Sealand sells post cards, as part of its general merchandise thing (along with nobility titles). Not sure about stamps though. Another quasi-governmental curio is that, again IIRC, Spain has several , maybe even a dozen or something, local currencies. All being traded just fine in their communities. (I think the US also has or had at least a couple, though those were essentially just checks of some co-op banks,…
> Spain has several, maybe even a dozen or something, local currencies. All being traded just fine in their communities. I've lived in Spain for decades, never heard of such thing. Depending how you count you could argue there are a dozen spoken languages, but currencies? That requires a big citation.
Wikipedia lists four local currencies in France: Abeille, Eusko, Krôkô, Occitan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency). And also says, “The eusko is one of a number of currencies that are active in the Basque Country”.
Though apparently the UK has about five current and four past community currencies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...
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> Spain has several, maybe even a dozen or something, local currencies. All being traded just fine in their communities. I've lived in Spain for decades, never heard of such thing. Depending how you count you could argue there are a dozen spoken languages, but currencies? That requires a big citation.
Might've mistaken with Basque country in particular and France in general—guess I majorly botched all those vague recollections in the comment. Wikipedia lists four local currencies in France: Abeille, Eusko, Krôkô, Occitan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency ). And also says, “The eusko is one of a number of currencies that are active in the Basque Country”. Though apparently the UK has about five current…
FWIW, I've only ever seen one local note in the UK and that was on somebody's fridge ~100km from Bristol where it would actually be valid. I suspect there is a fair amount of money trapped in scrapbooks and on fridges ;)
¹ https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_monnaies_locales_c...
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Vertically when you look at it on a map, where north is facing up. But we both knew that.
You are ruining the joke due to lack of sense of humor. Also: What if north is facing down? What if map is not on a wall but on a table? What if map is not oriented not in north-south direction?
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Might've mistaken with Basque country in particular and France in general—guess I majorly botched all those vague recollections in the comment. Wikipedia lists four local currencies in France: Abeille, Eusko, Krôkô, Occitan ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency ). And also says, “The eusko is one of a number of currencies that are active in the Basque Country”. Though apparently the UK has about five current…
Fell in to this rabbit hole a little earlier, so I'll try to drag you in as well. If you switch languages on Wikipedia the list grows a whole lot ¹. FWIW, I've only ever seen one local note in the UK and that was on somebody's fridge ~100km from Bristol where it would actually be valid. I suspect there is a fair amount of money trapped in scrapbooks and on fridges ;) ¹ https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_monnai…
(Also the ‘eQ’ thing on this page sounds like someone's marketing campaign, so perhaps should be cleaned up or removed. E.g.: “aims to promote local consumption, increase the purchasing power of people (for €1 you get 1.50eQ)”—wow very smart, much increase; but later suddenly “€1 = 1eQ”.)
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That's a great way to end up in turbo-prison en route to execution -- unless you're a prince of some sort. They're not a fan of drugs, to put it mildly.
Damn, that's a good point. I suppose we'd need a small sovereign piece of land for that kind of thing... a kind of micronation, if you will.