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Ha, you reminded me that it used to be common in the Netherlands (mainly among those over 40) to convert amounts in Euros to Guilders, mainly to express shock.
by Tijdreiziger 4y ago
Ha, you reminded me that it used to be common in the Netherlands (mainly among those over 40) to convert amounts in Euros to Guilders, mainly to express shock.
"It costs how much? 500 Euro?! That's 1000 guilders!!"
- jaclaz 4y agoI can confirm that the same happened (and sometimes, nowadays rarely, still happen ) in Italy, the conversion rate from Lira to Euro was 1936.27, so everyone used 2,000 for simplicity, i.e.: "It costs how much? 500 Euro?! That's 1,000,000 Lire!!" the conversion was 2002, so only little more than 20 years ago, people 40 and over have grown up "in local money".