Predecessors euro. A Brief History
It turns out that the principle of the euro is not so new and young. It nosilas in the air from time immemorial. A «Memorial» occurred in the 13 st century. Curiously, as the exploring minds of medieval merchants tried to implement their ideas about the single currency.
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Attempts to mingle (or unified) financial system has arisen. Almost simultaneously with the appearance of the coins. It is known that the first coins appear in Lydia (States is now in Asia Ward) in the VII century BC Some ancient Greek city-states began to enter into alliances with each other, agreeing on a subject to unfasten circulation on the territory of the coins issued by each of them.
The most famous attempt to create a common monetary system has been made in the Middle Ages, in the Hanseatic Club allied with - a political and trade associations in the Baltic Cities XIII-XVI centuries. At various times, it consisted of from 70 to 170 players. Dealings has been among the many cities, principalities, and the youngest of them had their own money.
In 1379 he was awarded monetary union in which the coins were minted single example (zekslingi, draylingi and others) taken in the major cities of the Hanseatic Lübeck, Hamburg, Rostock, Cologne and throughout Scandinavia, as well as in Novgorod and Pskov. The Cartel controlled the volume and the treatment of money in the Hanse. This monetary system existed for several decades and has broken, like the Hanseatic self coalition.
And in the future, in Europe, such efforts continue. In the first half of the XIX century have been carried out several projects for the integration of monetary systems. Verified, they are all implemented in the newly created or existing countries. Thus, before the creation of a single State, in Switzerland, there were 11 weird monetary systems, in Italy, drew a few dozen different types of coins, and in the future German Empire were 39 individualistic entities, each of which minted its own coins.
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