On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:46:59 +0100, "A.C.P.Crawshaw"
wrote:

wrote:

On the barcelona Metro there are signs saying things such as the
penalty for not having a cvaild ticket is 30 Euros and 5 cents. No
doubt the result of some very fair currency conversion.

I noticed that too, on a recent visit. Very odd.

Probably the simple result of the original pre-conversion penalty
being fixed by legislation ? The same would have occurred in the UK
for any item/service (e.g. registration fees) set by law in an amount
other than round pounds or shillings (most likely a multiple of 2s 6d)
which remained unchanged at the time of decimalisation.