Eight years after the euro was introduced, the franc is still in use in Le Blanc - a small market town of 7,000 people in the agricultural heartland of central France
Evidently there is nothing illegal about this - Francs are still legal tender until 2012. Even more interestingly, in Uruguay there are parallel currencies - the peso and the "charruah". According to this source (via Tyler Cowen):
the charrua will be accepted for all debts, public and private. This means that taxes will be payable in both pesos and charrua
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