Talk:Latin Monetary Union

message: I'm going to air a problem I have with the article.  In the first paragraph it is said that the LMU existed when European countries "still" used gold and silver coinage.  I realize that circulating gold and silver coins are not to be found in today's Europe, but the phrasing of it (specifically, the word "still") implies that the disappearance of gold and silver were somehow a natural progression away from some sort of antequated system.  Thoughts? Paul 04:50, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see that implication.  The fact of the matter is modern nations DO NOT use gold and silver.  Whether you believe that was a natural progression or merely an accident of history, or even a terrible mistake, is beside the point.  They did at that time, and they do not now. - Nik42 08:31, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, gold and silver were used for a long time before the LMU was created.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.67.202.154 (talk) 05:56, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: "Still"

message: Is the "Mint Act of 1873", mentioned in the article, the Fourth Coinage Act? — Itai (talk) 21:30, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mint Act of 1873 

message: ...was it "Latin" to begin with? 68.39.174.238 04:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See Latin peoples (linguistic). The founding states all use Romance languages as main official or co-official languages. Gestumblindi 18:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  So why... 

message: The U.S. couldn't possibly have been in an unofficial monetary union with Canada on the basis of the American Gold Eagle during the time of the LMU, because the Gold Eagle wasn't minted until 1986. Perhaps the author meant the United States $10 gold piece, which is sometimes referred to as an eagle. I don't want to remove it myself because it has a 'citation needed' tag, but perhaps a higher-ranking member should change the reference or remove it all together.
Response: The Mint act of 2 April 1792 was among the places where US $10 gold coins were refered to as eagles. PadicEcu (talk) 20:35, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold Eagle 

message: The article states that
  "The four nations were joined by Spain and Greece in 1868, and Romania, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Serbia and San Marino in 1889."
Henry Parker Willis book A History of the Latin Monetary Union says that Greece joined the Union and that Sapin and Romania entered into negotiations for entry but that these negotions were broken off.  He does say that Spain, Romania and other coutries issued coins to the standards of the union, but I know of no reliable reference that they acutally joined the Union.
PadicEcu (talk) 19:42, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Membership

message: Under the last paragraph of the History section it is mentioned about the Papal States: "With the tacit agreement of Napoleon III of France, Giacomo Antonelli, the administrator of the Papal Treasury, embarked on an ambitious increase in silver coinage without the prescribed amount of precious metal."
Giacomo Antonelli was, according to his article on the Italian wiki, at the Papal Treasury from 1845–47 while Napoleon of France reigned from 1852–70.
Maybe I'm missing something here but, given the five years in between the two, the above statement seems incorrect to me. --186.79.52.112 (talk) 05:11, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date Inconsistency? 

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message: "The Latin Monetary Union (LMU) was a 19th-century system that unified several European currencies into a single currency"
Is this currency union vs single currency? Each country kept its own national currency, didn't they!?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.67.202.154 (talk) 06:21, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  currency union vs single currency? 

message: At Papal lira, we have this:
The chronology is very confused. When was the silver coinage debased (from .900 to .835)? (This, the LMU article, suggests that it was after the Vatican joined, but doesn't give a date either. That the only source we have is an undergraduate's final thesis doesn't help but to be fair the reference is incidental to the author's subject and it is perhaps not surprising that her account is not as tight as we would like. The lack of citations makes it impossible to resolve without doing a lot of searching in sources, which really needs an editor with very high proficiency in legal Italian, I assume. If anyone can help, please revise the Papal lira article accordingly. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:05, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Debasement of coinage