Re: OT currency (was Re: Quoting styles (was Re: Antipassive?))

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
> Also it's kind of annyoing me that I often get back a 5 EUR bill and some
> small change at the supermarket, so would it be worth introducing a 5 EUR
> coin maybe?
Tell that to the Austrians -- some there want to replace 2 EUR with a bill!

I suppose it depends, in large part, what you're used to; apparently,
their smallest bill was worth quite a bit less than 5 EUR, so they
expect bills to start at lower values than Germans do.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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