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Vanished Valutes: Cryptic Currency Codes
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Romanian relic monetary unit, before revaluation and codes changed
  • 3. Iberian peninsular phantom, displaced by the European standard
  • 4. Monarchic metallic standard, once widespread in Northern Europe
  • 5. Imperial Russian unit, now evolved but spelled the same in Latin script
  • 7. Pluralized ancient Athenian coinage hinting at classical weight
  • 10. Dutch historical gold piece, now a numismatic whisper
  • 11. Slovenian precursor with a name echoing early European coinage
  • 13. Finnish financial fossil, before it thawed into a Eurozone embrace
  • 14. Italian vestige of Raphael’s kingdom — no longer legal tender
Down
  • 2. Subcontinental obsolete, replaced as national identities reformed
  • 6. Portuguese shield coin, retired after Iberian integration
  • 8. Ancient Greek weight turned currency, eclipsed by the Euro’s rise
  • 9. Austrian archival coinage lost in the Euro’s monetary dawn
  • 12. Predecessor to the dollar whose name minted modern currency noms
  • 15. South American forsaken currency echoing indigenous heritage
  • 16. Roman legacy currency, now superseded in several Balkan states
  • 17. Old Gallic coinage, now replaced but echoing revolutionary fervor

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