Tuesday, 24 July 2007

Funny Money

While I knew on coming here that Rarotonga used our NZ currency I didn’t realise they also have some coins of their own (which of course have the same value as ours).

They are quite interesting to look at and must be very easy for visually impaired people to distinguish between. There’s a scalloped-edged $1, a triangular $2 and whopping great big 12-sided $5 coin. (I put the NZ 20cent in to give an idea of size)

I haven’t seen the legendary $3 note yet, apparently they are quite hard to come by as tourists take them home for souvenirs.

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