Reply to post: Re: Lira?

Tech rookie put decimal point in wrong place, cost insurer zillions

Steve Kerr

Re: Lira?

They actually done this with the Romanian currency years ago (LEU/RON).

They took off the 4 trailing zeros, so 50,000 became 5.

When I was over there, both sets of notes were still in use, actually, was fairly straightforward to use, don't know about behind the scenes though I think the currency name changed as well to make it easier to deal with, think RON became LEU

Think I still have a 50,000 note around here somewhere.

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