"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 18:11:59 on Fri, 20
Jun 2008, Peter Beale remarked:
The strange thing about France is that several years after going over to
the Euro, many bills and credit card slips still have the amount in francs
as well as euros. I am not sure why this is.

It was like that originally in the Netherlands too (not French francs
though, of course), but it soon went away. It seemed to be linked to
people who hadn't had their menus and price tags reprinted into Euros yet.
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Each state had its own transition periods, in which both currencies could
operate side by side.