[Leica] IMG: Iranian Money

[Tina Manley]

Tom is an engineer.  Every night he accounted for every penny (rial)
spent.  He's obsessive that way.

Tina

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Given what you just described, how do you know that you were never cheated?
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> > On 10 May 2016, at 15:22, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > PESO:
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> > We never got used to using Iranian money.  When we lived in Iran in the
> > 1970's one dollar equaled 8 rials.  Today one dollar equals 30,000 rials.
> > That makes for awkwardly large amounts of bills so prices are often given
> > in tomans, which means you knock one zero off of the rial amount.  What
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> > would do is hold out a handful of money and let the merchant choose what
> he
> > needed:
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> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000r1PIO5ggNp4
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> > We were never cheated and they always rounded out the price in our favor!
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