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>The other interesting thing about Chinese currency is how light the coins are. They feel like they're made of plastic. This is only the really old designs (19
by dmoy 14y ago
>The other interesting thing about Chinese currency is how light the coins are. They feel like they're made of plastic.
This is only the really old designs (1950s), also really small coins. 0.01 and 0.05 RMB coins are cheap and flimsy aluminum or something (? dunno exactly what metal). You almost never see those any more.
The newer 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 coins are equivalent to US coins in sturdiness, some kind of brass or nickel or something.
- sitharus 14y agoInteresting. I picked them up in 2003, the 0.05RMB were the most obvious ones, the larger denominations were definitely more coin-like.
- dmoy 14y agoYea, and you're seeing less and less of those now, especially in bigger cities where prices are getting crazy high. Also most stores are really good about keeping things in even 0.5/1 increments, instead of having everything be X.99 or X.95 (for the most part).
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoI went to the bank to pay a USD bill in RMB and they gave me 1 and 5 fens in my change. Mostly, I never see fen unless I go to the bigger grocery stores.