Possible Clues:

• Composer finally lost part of his income
• Coin with a laurel branch on the back
• Managed with cents after introduction of forged currency
• Money king's left a composer
• Boy -- one's lost a Swiss coin
• Blunt speech in old currency
• Common African monetary unit
• Old money of European country drops a point
• Old Cannes currency
• Coin being replaced by the euro