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- From: neil@robots.ox.ac.uk (Neil Townsend)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Legal Tender
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.180319.28866@lucrece.robots.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:03:19 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.133716.29844@hemlock.cray.com> <mcirvin.721168955@husc8> <1992Nov13.204058.29211@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Originator: neil@lucrece.robots
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- In article <mcirvin.721168955@husc8> Mcirvin wrote:
- > Is it somehow more legitimate
- >to refuse pennies than to refuse $100 bills?
-
- Bruce Watson commented:
-
- >My understanding is that debts cannot be paid in pennies if they exceed
- >10 cents. So that all the ULs you hear about thousands a pennies
- >used to pay fines, etc. are not true.
-
- In Belgium, the maximum number of coins of a particular value that a
- merchant must accept in all or part payment for goods or services is
- specified in law. I can't remember how many, I'll try and track that
- down on my next forray to the land of beer and chips (that's fries,
- not crisps).
-
- Neil "But I'm going for new year ..." Townsend
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- Neil Townsend | neil@uk.ac.ox.robots | enough already
-