Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 22, 2001, 12:02 |
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Will there be one and two eurocent coins in the Netherlands? How about
other euro countries?
Tristan
At 09.11 a.m. 22.12.2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Matthew Kehrt wrote:
> >
> > I seem to be the only one in the world in favor of keeping pennies. It
> > seems silly to have the smallest coin be worth 5 units and have all
> > other denominations multiples of this. It would make more sense to
> > redefine the value of pennies to be five times their face value and work
> > up from there. (Easier said than done, of course.)
>
>In The Netherlands the smallest coin we have is 5 cents. We have 5, 10 en 25
>cent coins, and 1, 2.5 and 5 guilder coins (until january 1st, that is).
>Shopkeeper like prices like 1.99 etc., so if you pay in cash, all totals are
>rounded to the nearest 5c. If you pay with your bank pas, you pay the exact
>amount..
>
>E.g., if you pay three bars of chocolate, 1.99 each, then the total is 5.97.
>Cash, you would pay 5.95, using a bank pass or credit card, you would pay
>5.97.
>
>Of course, all this will change in january.
>
>Maarten
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