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Old 07-27-2020, 06:24 PM   #373
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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim View Post
I remember marveling on trips to England how everything came out even, no small change (coins) involved.
In London in dark bars, it can be too much trouble to take out glasses to read those numbers. I would throw some coins on the bar and ask a bar tender to take what she needed. She would select a few coins. It only took maybe two coins to buy a pint of beer - because their currency has value.
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