First, that's cool that the locals are that honest. Too bad more people
aren't like that.
Second, what Ken said. That's a NatGeo shot (the classic NatGeo in the
pre-Murdoch days. When that happened, I let my subscription expire.
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> PESO:
>
> 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 Tom
> would do is hold out a handful of money and let the merchant choose what he
> needed:
>
>
> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000r1PIO5ggNp4
>
> We were never cheated and they always rounded out the price in our favor!
>
> Tina
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