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[email protected] · January 7th 14, 09:10 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Richard J.) wrote:

Mizter T wrote on 06 January 2014 21:01:28 ...

On 06/01/2014 17:16, David Cantrell wrote:

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 08:46:47PM +0000, Clive Page wrote:

It could be that some of them are conditioned by the near
impossibility of using ticket machines at stations in France (and for
that matter in the Netherlands) if you are a non-native.

The only problem I've had with ticket machines in Paris is that they
use funny foreign coins that I don't recognise very quickly, which
makes it hard to figure out what to put in. If only Europe would adopt
a single currency, such as the pound.

Well, at least the funny foreign coins show the value as a number. I
feel sorry for foreigners trying to decipher "TWENTY PENCE" in
letters 1.5mm high on the edge of our 20p coin.

The old 20p design before me as I write has the figures "20" on it. The new
designs are so naff that it doesn't surprise me to find they don't have
figures. The 20p even managed to appear without a date because the date was
switched from reverse to obverse and some were minted with the old head side.

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Colin Rosenstiel