The Italians were quite pragmatic about small denominations. I remember shops
that would use pieces of chewing gum orlittle packets of Kleenex for change.
But, in those days a million lira was about 12 bucks, so one was....
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From: "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 9:04:27 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] £ note questions
Back in the mid-70s you could use telephone tokens as currency in Italy. I
still have some. I was a bit lira-ey of using them.
>
>What ever you do, do not be fobbed off into receiving Scottish pound
>notes! I have a few of them issued by Bank of Scotland, The Royal Bank
>of Scotland, and the Clydesdale Bank. They are, or were, good for 100
>pennies in the pound in Scotland but take them to England and you'd be
>lucky to get 70 pennies in the pound if anything at all.
>
Chris
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