On Sun, 9 May 2004 17:33:41 -1000, "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
wrote:
>And here we'll be in London mid-July...otherwise I could have brought
>you some of the old 560 bits taking up space in my closet.
>
>Bruce - if you have any UK currency lying around the house, I'll gladly
>buy some from you; how does 50 genuine US cents for every toy UK pound
>sound?-)
Grr, don't remind me. Growing up in KY at age 8 or nine, a bunch of
us got funny-looking British money, coins and bills, from an uncle
who'd been in the service and stationed in England. We ran to the
local candy to spend them. and the clerk's method of exchange was to
match the coins to the value of similar-sized or -looking US coins
("Ehh, that's about the size of a quarter, and that one's brown so
call it a penny.") and the 1 and 5 pound notes to dollars. :-)
Emanuel
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