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Posted by Mogli on March 10, 2002 at 11:25:14: In Reply to: Euro's are terrible posted by Whats The Point on March 10, 2002 at 04:10:28: The edges are all different for the blind and the idea of the small coins was to prevent shopkeepers rounding prices up - we got something like €70 per person in small coins as opposed to an average of €20 in other countries because we were judged to be more paranoid about the euro causing inflation. Obviously though it hasn't worked - doctors for example just hiked their prices way up - €30 euros - a hike of about £4 if they were charging £20 quid in December. What's the inflation rate - a hell of lot less than 20%for sure.
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