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Are there more rogues around these days?
On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:47:34 +0100, "BartC" wrote:
In Holland once, instead of being handed a 5 guilder coin as part of my change (worth about £2), I got a 5 Belgian franc coin, as a I found out later. The Belgian coin was around the same size, but was worth just a few pence. So take care next time you're in a part of Holland that hasn't yet switched to euros.. Would there be a part? Anyway ,can any one confirm that in France at one time coins that had been issued during the German occupation or by the Vichy French remained in circulation but were worth less than their more modern equivalents. I recall some being handed over in change to a Pal on a school trip to France in the late 1960's. They felt a lot different to the normal ones being made of aluminium and the accompanying French teacher heard the comments and intervened ,as he was a French national he easily entered into a lively discussion with the vendor and the coins were substituted. It may have just been the case that the value was the same but like Scottish currency in most of England it was only begrudgingly accepted and the Vendor was trying to unload some. The teacher pointed out that the coins carried the legend Etat Française and normal ones would have République Française . G.Harman |
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Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Terry Casey wrote: In the early 60s, the French made a killing with tourists after they introduced the New Franc - which was worth ten times as much as the old one. Thus a 10NF note was equal to an old 100 franc note. It was 100 to 1, not 10. And until the Euro had to be used, property prices were normally given in Anciens Francs... -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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