Ancient Coinage
 

Would anyone here happen to know what currency they used in the Balkans about 120 years ago? :D

From what I can tell from poking around in Wikipedia, it looks like the borders were pretty fluid then, with a lot of influency by the Russians and Turks. If there was a common currency, it was probably one of those. Beyond that, you'd have to pick a country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histori...lkan_Peninsula

Oh my! I see that this question is even more complicated than I anticipated!

Well, I had fun reading about Florence Nightengale, the Crimean War, and other matters Balkan related this morning. Good question!

P.S. They ain't called the Balkans for nothing...

Yeah, ain't the Wikipedia fun? :D

I'm beginning to understand how people were able to make huge fortunes just by trading currencies that were out of balance. I suspect that such opportunities are rare in the days of computers, though. It would be too easy to write a computer program that constantly monitors exchange rates, looks for imbalances, and automatically does trades.

You mean an electronic version of the Midas Formula?

Very, very, bad Karma in that one.

What is the Midas Formula?