Talk:Luxembourg franc

money museum

the BCCE has a lovely money museum with pictures of thalers, marks and francs -- banknotes and kassenscheins. Y23 (talk) 10:29, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

1999

I have reverted the date back to 1999. SCADPlus: Monetary law of the participating Member States (transition period and period from 1st January 2002) says:

As from 1 January 1999 the currency of the participating Member States will be the euro. The currency unit will be one euro, divided into one hundred cents.

[...]

TRANSITION PERIOD (1st January 1999 - 31 December 2001)

During the transitional period, the euro will be divided into the national currency units according to the conversion rates. Any subdivision thereof will be maintained. It will therefore be possible to use the single currency under its own name, but also in the denominations and units of the former national currencies, which will have become expressions of the euro.'

Therefore the LUF was just a bizarre multiple of the euro. LUF/BEF was no longer present in exchange boards from 1999 onwards. Of course, LUF/BEF notes and coins were legal tender, but they were in fac "euros in disguisse".

Had not been the transition period like this, nobody would have been able to pay in euros in non physical form (debit/credit card, bank transfers, money order...) in Luxembourg in 1999, which was not the case.

Also, the Belgian francwiki states:

Like the French franc, the Belgian/Luxembourgian franc ceased to exist in 1 January 1999, when it became fixed at 1 EUR= 40.3399 BEF/LUF, thus a franc was worth 0.024789 €. Old franc coins and notes lost its legal tender status in 28 February, 2002.

13:24, 3 February 2006 (UTC)Thewikipedian 14:23 UTC+2

The euro was a financial fiction until 2002. To imply, as this article currently does in its opening section, that the franc ceased to circulate in 1999 is simply wrong and must be corrected.

The previous version said that the LUF ceased to exist as an international currency from 1999, but it also stated that LUF was a multiple of the euro. LUF coins and notes remained legal tender until 2002:

The franc was the currency of Luxembourg from 1854 until 1999, when it became a subdivison of the euro (1EUR = 40.3399 LUF). A franc was subdivided into 100 centimes. . One franc was subdivided into 100 centimes. Between 1999 and 2002, the franc was officially a subdivison of the euro (1 euro = 40.3399 francs), although the euro did not exist in coin or banknote form.

In the euro transition period between 1999 and 2002, non physical payments could be conducted in EUR or LUF. Franc notes and coins were used while euro notes and coins were produced.

Furthermore, between 1999 and 2001 it was not possible to convert from LUF to FRF or another EMU subunit directly. Firstly, the amount in LUF had to be converted into EUR, then back into FRF.

Other wikis agree with this view. See Franc, Deutsche_Mark, Austrian schilling, Dutch gulden, Belgian_franc, Finnish markka, French franc ,Portuguese escudo,Irish pound...

From the european commission euro switchover archives:

January 1, 1999 The euro became the currency for 11 Member States (Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland).

* The national currencies became `non-decimal' sub-units of the euro : conversion rates between each of them and the euro irrevocably fixed		ESCB, Member States
* The euro remains a scriptural currency (banknotes and coins not yet available)	 	 
* Single monetary policy for the euro-zone		European System of Central Banks (ESCB)
* Various legislation came into force, notably on the legal status of the euro		Member States, European Investment Bank, Commission
* New government debt is issued in euro, and many financial markets switch to euro: foreign exchange, share and bond markets.

See also http://www.europarl.eu.int/workingpapers/econ/114/chapii_en.htm Thewikipedian 15:24, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

"·How about this form of words?" --> no objections. It explains clearly both the legal and practical situation of the LUF between 1999 and 2002. :-) Thewikipedian 11:07, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

"Luxembourgish" vs. "Luxembourgian"

I've moved the article to Luxembourgish franc. I saw in the history that it has been batted to and fro a bit.

I've only ever heard the term "Luxembourgian" from British people who, not knowing the adjective, have made one up. In the 12 years I lived in Luxembourg (predominantly among English-speaking people), I never heard this term used. The closest debate I ever heard on the matter was "Luxembourgish" vs. "Luxemburgish".

Google gives 2,710,000 results for "Luxembourgish" but only 62,100 for "Luxembourgian". Mibblepedia 13:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Google hits are skewed; the Luxembourgish language accounts for every hit in the first three pages (I stopped there, since it didn't seem useful going on; feel free to do so yourself). By comparison, sources that reflect usage of the English languages are, for the most part, agreed that it's 'Luxembourgian': Merriam-Webster, Cambridge Dictionary, Dictionary.com, etc. Bastin 10:17, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Printer

According to the BCL website, the printer was Bradbury Wilkinson and de la Rue. The infobox on this wikipedia article says it's the National Bank of Belgium. Unless there are any complaints, I'll proceed with correcting it. George Adam Horváth (talk) 20:22, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on Luxembourgish franc. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

• Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20070926215853/http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/index.php3?action=showghoc&country_name=LUXEMBOURG to http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/index.php3?action=showghoc&country_name=LUXEMBOURG

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 02:59, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Luxembourgish franc. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20081114125403/http://www.bcl.lu/en/currency/Banknotes_coins/Luf/pieces_Luf/index.html to http://www.bcl.lu/en/currency/Banknotes_coins/Luf/pieces_Luf/index.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 09:41, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 16 September 2019

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved  — Amakuru (talk) 10:39, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

---

Luxembourgish franc → Luxembourg franc – Widely known in English as Luxembourg franc. Luxembourgish is mistakenly used here as a "translation" of luxembourgeois. Ipigott (talk) 18:55, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

• Support wikt:Luxembourgish seems to be a real word, and is used in many article titles, so I don't agree with the rationale for moving because it's a mis-translation. However, nominator does seem to be correct in saying that "Luxembourg franc" is the WP:COMMONNAME. See ngrams for example. "Luxembourg franc" gets 630 results on Google Scholar, whereas "Luxembourgish franc" gets 17. Colin M (talk) 19:02, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
• Support per nom. - ZLEA _T\^C 01:26, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
• Support. Common name. But oh, what a history! See here if the target history has been overwritten. Hopefully these many moves will now be over, Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics/Style notwithstanding. Andrewa (talk) 13:04, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

---

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.