Countdown to euro cash

EUROPE - The European Central Bank begins its campaign today, 30 August, to persuade the 300 million citizens of the eurozone to recognise - and love - their new currency.

With just four months to go before the euro becomes legal tender in the 12 European countries that have adopted it, armoured vans will begin distributing the more than 50bn coins and 15bn notes that will be needed by shops on 1 January 2002.

But there are fears that unfamiliarity with the new currency will make it easy for

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