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Have You Ever Paid With A Coin And Got A Banknote In Change?

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I wondered if any CCF members have ever paid for something with a coin and got a banknote in change?

I can remember this happening to me in Portugal in 1985. I needed a 5-escudo stamp to make up postage on a letter. I went to a post office and tendered a 25-escudo coin, and got a 20-escudo note in change.

20-escudo notes were withdrawn not long afterwards...
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I remember something similar in spain .. 200 pesetas coin and go an old 100 pesetas note in change.
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Wow, interesting question.
To the best of my knowledge I've never had this happen to me.
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In Hong Kong, the 1 cent coin was withdrawn a long time ago, back in WWII. But government bills (taxes, telephone, etc) continued to be charged to the nearest cent. To give exact change, the government printed one-cent banknotes. They remained legal tender until last year. South China Morning Post article.
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I don't think so.
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In China you can pay with 1 yuan coins and get 5 or 1 jiao paper notes as change. Yes this happened to me a lot when I was in China.
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There was only one occasion that this happened. This was in Russia back in 2001 I think and I gave a 10 ruble commemorative coin since it was dinged up and received 5 ruble banknote. Bear in mind that there are 5 ruble coins and 5 ruble notes were essentially close to extinct at that time.
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Sap the article was 1995, so the Hong Kong one cent was demonetised in 1995.
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