Oct 26, 2016 14:34
7 yrs ago
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French term

FB

Non-PRO French to English Bus/Financial Finance (general) currency
"... une somme de plus de 200.000.000 de FB..." as found in a French court decision dating back to 2000.

What does FB stand for here? It is definitely not a standard ISO currency code of any kind. So what is it? Dollars? Euros? Fried bananas?

Many thanks for your help.
Change log

Oct 26, 2016 14:41: writeaway changed "Field" from "Law/Patents" to "Bus/Financial" , "Field (write-in)" from " " to " currency"

Oct 26, 2016 14:45: Rachel Fell changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

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Non-PRO (3): writeaway, Rob Grayson, Rachel Fell

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Proposed translations

+5
2 mins
Selected

Belgian Francs

Hard to know without more context, but one suggesiton
Note from asker:
Oh, yeah, but of course! Many thanks.
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway : it would take a tremendous amount of time and imagination to come up with something else in the context
11 mins
agree Chakib Roula
22 mins
agree Daryo
29 mins
agree philgoddard : You were first.
36 mins
agree rokotas
17 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you both. I hate to have to choose who to give the points to since you were both right and you were both fast. Under the circumstances, I figured I might as well give them to the lady. I hope the gentleman doesn't mind. I know I wouldn't."
+3
3 mins

Belgian Francs

Would be my guess...

A court judgement from 2000 could still refer to the period when the Belgian Franc was legal tender (up to 1999)
Note from asker:
Thank you, sir. This is so obvious I feel embarrassed. A short in my brain, no less.
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway : just a guess?
10 mins
Well you never know :-)...
agree Chakib Roula
20 mins
agree Daryo
27 mins
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