FRENCH COIN SHORTAGE

One of your editor's research interests is the specie panic of 1862, caused by financial conditions of the U.S. Civil War. Citizens of France are running into similar severe cash shortages as a result of a strike by armored car security guards.

"If this is a cashless society, count me out. -- That's the message from disgusted French men and women who suddenly can't find a functioning money machine or who must leave the supermarket empty-handed because the teller doesn't have the right change."

Merchants are grumpy, too. "I went to the bank and they say they don't have any more one- or two- franc coins," groused an apron-clad Joel Jatteau as he arranged fresh mackerel on his fish stand on the east side of Paris."

Wayne Homren, Editor

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The E-Sylum: Volume 3, Number 21, May 21, 2000, Article 6

FRENCH COIN SHORTAGE

Wayne Homren, Editor