Posted 10/25/2010 4:32 pm
LOL the old Gettone. I hated when they gave me those things back as change. It was a lot harder to get another merchant to take them as payment and I had a phone at home so I really had no need for them. About once every three months or so I would take them down to the local Telephonico Italia office and cash them in at 200 lira a piece. I lived in Belpasso, Sicily about a third of the way up the side of Mount Etna in the mid to late 90's.
Here is one in English:
