I've always thought "Euro" is a silly sounding name. They should have used a Latin word and called it the "Quid", and half the resistance to it in England would lhave just melted away.

We had dollars in Europe long before the USA was set up. For example in England it was the colloquial way of saying "five bob" (five shillings that was - 25 pence in this modern money they imposed on us).