Printing Euro cheques

[Alessio Bragadini]

Some months ago there was discussions about cheque printing - some of us 
European users pointed out that the coming of the Euro (as of 1/1/2002) would 
have probably changed things.

I've recently received a leaflet from my Italian bank with official rules to 
write a correct "euro-cheque". It's quite a surprise because they are 
different from traditional Italian behaviour in the matter, I am not sure if 
it's an European directive or a local one but I suspect the former.

I translate from Italian (capitals are mine):
"In Euro cheques you MUST always show two decimal digits (even if they equal 
zero), separated by a comma(*) for the amount in digits and by a slash for 
the amount in letters"

(*) in Italy, decimals are after a comma, not a point, but in the specimen 
sent me the comma is printed directly on the cheque.

This is how the cheque should look for an amounts of 37.00 or 37.28 euros, 
thirty-seven being "trentasette" in Italian.

TOP RIGHT -> euro 37 , 00
MAIN ROW -> Trentasette / 00

TOP RIGHT -> euro 37 , 28
MAIN ROW -> Trentasette / 28

You don't have to write "and 28 (or twenty-eight) cents", then.

Hope it helps.

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Alessio F. Bragadini		alessio@sevenseas.org