jwb@csse.monash.edu.au wrote:
> B Robson <front@00-love.jp> dixit:
> 
>>CL wrote:
>>
>>>Many years ago, when I worked for a major motorcycle manufacturer, I
>>>needed dollars and stopped off at the branch of Union Bank closest to
>>>the US headquarters of my employer.  
> 
> 
>>While I sympathise, imagine trying to get rid of Austrian Schillings
>>when they had just changed to plastic and word hadn't filtered out to
>>remote areas like Tokyo.
> 
> 
> Here in Oz changing any forn currency apart from USD, NZD and GBP
> is well-nigh impossible at smaller bank branches. They all either
> send you to the central city branch, or take the money and you have 
> to wait for it to be cleared centrally.
> 
> I'd never attempt to try and change some Yen locally.
> 
Lots of things can happen with obscure currencies and small banks. A
visitor from Wisconsin decided to purchase some Antille Nederlanden
Guilder before she visited. Most of it was fine, but she had a pile of
brilliant blue five-guilder notes, which struck me as unusual, as we
only have five-guilder coins. I took them to a neighbor to check them
out. The government had pulled them from circulation 25 years ago.
Fortunately, they were still valid as currency.

KWW