July 2, 2007
Well, not in any appreciable way. And probably not by design. And my inner numismatist is happy about it at least.
At Five Guys not too long ago, I ordered a burger like I usually do. Paid in cash and got my change back without thinking much about it. After all, change just goes into jars when I get home, and quarters go into a pile to be used at the car wash.
Except that one of my quarters wasn't a quarter. It wasn't even an almost-quarter from Canada. It was a Korean 100-won coin (scroll down for it), worth just a fraction less than 11 cents.
So I was cheated out of about 14 cents in general, and 25 cents in actual usage, but I get to add another coin to my collection. I'll have to check whether the existing coin I have is series I or II (other countries tend to update their currency more frequently than we do here) to know just how much my pathetic little collection has increased by.
