Typing on a KOFA 300

Twenty first century typewriting.

Mysterious keys (4) : The Euro!

The euro, the currency of most of the European Union, went live in 1999. In 2002 physical money appeared and began replacing the likes of the French franc and German mark. You would therefore imagine that the euro postdates the typewriter age by quite some margin. And you would imagine wrong.

My KOFA 300 typewriter has the euro symbol on it! Typewriters continue to be made in China to the present day and the KOFA came from such a factory some time in the early twenty first century. It was listed on eBay as "vintage" natch.

KOFA look at this

The latest typewriter to join the collection is here! Number 15 is this KOFA 300. Now, this typewriter is nowhere near as old as some of the others in the collection. The company's website, which looks like it was last updated in 1998, still lists it as available so maybe the typewriter was made in the 1990s. It works pretty well.

Update: i've just noticed the typewriter has the euro symbol so that would indicate late 1990s or early 2000s!