CL wrote:
>
> Why didn't you just run over to the local branch of the Bank of Austria
> (Osterreicherbank?) and cash them in there?  There used to be one around
> ... maybe in Hibiya or Nihonbashi.  If they couldn't do the exchange
> they had a local bank they could instruct.  They helped me get the
> schillings I needed to pay a very strange person in some remote mountain
> village for parts for a Puch 250 "Twingle" I helped one of the locals
> restore.
>
> Usually if the local currency exchange desk ladies start looking at you
> like you're naked, you're better off grabbing the cash and finding the
> local office of a bank from the country where the money came from.  They
> usually have a person there who knows how to fix those kinds of
> problems.

But weren't you bitching about having to do this very thing in another
post in this thread?

John W.