June 21st 08, 04:22 PM
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How much was a ticket for the underground in the 60s?
Roland Perry wrote in
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In message , at 23:43:47 on Thu,
19 Jun 2008, remarked:
So it seems the Dutch have not abolished the 2c after all.
Can they actually abolish it in their country, however?
I don't know. I was simply reporting that it was, in fact, still in
circulation, despite reports to the contrary.
It's one monetary system, which is used by 15 states.
I'm going to France soon and I'll see what the situation is there.
I was in St Omer (northern France) last Saturday, and when buying in the
market, they (consistently) priced with a resolution of 1c and totalled
the bill precisely, but then only charged me the price rounded down to a
5c multiple. So for example, item A was weighed and labelled as 1.28
euro, item B was labelled at 1.59 euro, the total was 2.87 euro and they
gave 15c change from 3 euro.
A lot of "Mom and Pop" small food stores in Metro Vancouver have
adopted that method as an unofficial way to avoid Canadian pennies.
I imagine they would accept 1c and 2c coins, but I didn't try.
Peter
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