Funnimoney?
When Alice and I were in Turkey many years ago they had just clipped a handful or so of the 0s from their currency - SO - we could see the same item in two shops, priced at e.g 56 Lira and 56,000,000 next door.
Being a bit of a frustrated linguist with zero second language; I had to do a translate "Turkiye cumhuriyeti - yeni kurus". It became "Republic of Turkey - new kurus" with attendant oddity - thus:-
Yeni Kurus - New Kurus - BUT - remove the "Yeni" and Kurus translates as "Penny" - SO - The thing resembling a "C" wasn't for "Cent" it was the crescent of Islam with the * much less evident.
NOW you know it's there - can you see it?
What's it doing here? Well I saw it on the carpet masquerading as a Quid, so without checking I pocketed it. Always useful if I haven't a Trolley token.
T B H I'd looked at it so little that I offered A. N. Other it for her Trolley & she said "That's not a £1, it's a Euro." WRONG Mrs., but at least you noticed; more than I did.
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