Carrying on in my crusade^W campaign against ambiguities that aren't
ambiguous at all to anyone else ...
> > Padraic Brown wrote:
> > > It makes sense as inflation rises rapidly. Latin American
> > > countries are famous for revaluing currencies this way.
> Am 21.12.01, Anton Sherwood yscrifef:
> > Not with the same physical tokens, surely?
Padraic Brown wrote:
> Sometimes, yes. You can find paper money (doesn't work well
> with coin, but it has been done) that is overprinted with a
> new value.
If it's overprinted, it's not the same token; the substrate is recycled,
but what counts is the new stamp. A holder of old currency does not
wake up one day with cash that is suddenly worth ten times as much as
yesterday, as you seemed to imply.
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Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/