A plan for the new Greek currency to use marbles instead of coins has been rejected because marbles roll away and are too easy to lose.
It wouldn't be the first time Greece had lost its marbles, said Prof Theo Marbilopolis of the Hellenic Institute of Coinage.
Marble production, which had already started at factory in the Scottish town of Elgin, has been halted.
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