converting dollars to euros
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converting dollars to euros
We just returned from a wonderful vacation in Paris -- our first trip there. Mostly we changed money at the various change offices found everywhere in Paris. After being charged a fairly steep rate at one, we consulted our travel guides which advised that banks and post offices were more economical.<BR><BR>Here's the odd part, the post office would not accept our dollars, saying that the serial numbers were too "current", meaning, I guess, that the money had been printed fairly recently. The language barrier prevented us from understanding the explanation, which wasn't very detailed anyway.<BR><BR>Anyone else run into this???<BR><BR>Ellen
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no, as I've never tried to exchange cash in Paris, but I think the explanation sounds fairly straightfoward to me. If the bills were very new, they probably were thinking they could be counterfeit, I imagine. They can be pretty picky about currency in Paris, I've noticed, and not just foreign. I had a MOnoprix store in an outer area refuse some French currency from me once claiming they put it in some magic machine that could tell if it were real or not and they thought it was counterfeit. They didn't keep it, though, thank goodness, as I just went and spent it at another store. It was just some 50F note or something I'd gotten as change at another store.