Monday, October 31, 2005

500 yen note

The other day, a boy in my class gave me this as a present. It is a 500 yen note. The smallest note in circulation today is 1000, so it is similar to being given a £1 note. They were in use about the time of WWII I think, but I'm not sure when they were phased out, and the notes have no date unfortunately.

Update: aparently these notes are not that old after all, maybe only about 20 years. Still, they are no longer in circulation, so quite exciting.

posted by niko-chan @ 1:47 am 

2 Comments:

Blogger Chris said...

Cool. Do you often get random presents from students?

2:42 am  
Blogger niko-chan said...

I get lots of random presents from students. Especially the hormonal boys in the first year. So far I have had various sweets, paper cranes, two bracelets and a book. but money has to be the best!

5:53 am  

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