Medvedev Shows Off
Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated
his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his
pocket a sample coin of a “united future world
currency.”
“Here it is,” Medvedev told reporters
today in L’Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight nations. “You can
see it and touch it.”
The coin, which bears the words
“unity in diversity,” was minted in Belgium and presented to the heads of G-8
delegations, Medvedev said.