On 2019-06-28 7:50 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
On 06/28/19 16:54, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote (in part):
On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and
28mm, resp.).
Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that
was in my leftover Canadian cash from a previous trip years before.
Two weeks ago I was in London, and had brought my pound notes/coins
from a visit a few years earlier. When trying to buy lunch, the
cashier refused my £10 note since new £5 and £10 notes had been
issued over a year before. I was advised I could change it at a bank...
Then there were those huge 10-franc coins in France before the Euro,
large enough to have writing engraved on the edge. (I still have one
or two somewhere....)
N.
The Canadian 2 dollar coin has writing engraved on the edge.
The largest coins I have encounter was when I was in Mexico in the early
90s. I think the smallest denomination at the time was 500 pesos it
was about the size of 2or 3 quarters stacked up and worth nothing.
Paul.
