found: Introduction of the euro in the securities industry, 1998(the euro is a completely new currency, not equivalent to the ECU)
found: Europa world yr. bk., 1997(as part of stage III of the process of economic and monetary union, the ECU was to be replaced by a single currency, the Euro; notes and coins not to be in circulation until 2002)
found: New York times, April 25, 1998(starting next year, most of Western Europe will take the first step toward unifying its economic system by adopting one currency, the euro; all but 4 of the 15 nations in the European Union are expected to approve final plans for the introduction of a single European currency on Jan. 1)
