[DL] RE: Kiwi Currency [OT]

["Heivilin, Jim" <banzai@missouri.edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soothsprayer [mailto:hercubadger@yahoo.com]
> Subject: Re: Kiwi Currency (Was [DL] Moderator vs. non-moderator
> --- Rich Ranallo <toadpooka@juno.com> wrote:
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> Well, the main reason for that is American money just
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> "shop." There's no colour (other than green), there's
>
Personally I don't care what color it is as long as the FLGS will take it in
exchange for games.  

> no picture of the Queen, and there's no funky metallic
>
Well, there is that. 

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> To answer the previous question:
> It's a New Zealand Dollar (it's metric as there are
> 100 cents to a dollar). 
> Curently it's worth around $US 0.41.
> They come in many different colours. For example,
> IIRC, $5 are red. $10 are blue, $20 are green. 
> There are no $1 or $2 notes. Instead we use gold coins
> for that role. 
> 
Hmmm.  Wonder if I could add some of your coins to my collection.  Of course
that would mean that it loses it's "authenticity" (I visited all the
countries I have coins from, except for the one Yugoslavian coin - in the
80's it was very difficult to go behind the curtain).  

Jim