Paphos Life

I was given a 10 something note.
The script seems to be east European.
The country seems to be: "poccnn"
The currency: "kpachorpck" (the "r" is actually reversed to look at).
Can anyone tell me what this note is?
Thanks,
Amos.

I would guess Russian Roubles

Varky wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2017 9:33 am I would guess Russian Roubles

Thank you Varky.
Amos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_ruble_Russian_banknote

Yes, Russian. Discontinued though, so you've been burned, to the tune of 14.61 cents, which will explain why it was discontinued.

Thanks Dominic + Happy in Cyprus.
It was given to me by a Russian! Serves me right I suppose for being so trusting.
Baked beans on toast for tea today!
Amos.

Years ago I visited Cambodia. At the time there were about 2500 riel (their currency) to the £. I had hired a guide for 5 days to show me around Angkor (you had to by law in those days) and every day we would get beset by street hawkers, as you would expect. On one day a boy tried to sell me a T Shirt, which was about 8 sizes too small. I told him I would buy it for 1 riel. He said "Mister, if you can give me 1 riel, you can have it for 1 riel".

The next day, over lunch, my guide shows me some of his mementos from what must have been a very traumatic childhood. One such memento, was a 1 riel note, which he gave me*. So, that evening when we meet the hawkers again, the same thing happened, but this time I hold up my note.

"No, no mister. 2 riel!"

* I think he gave it to me because I introduced to him the notion of preferred sellers. At the top of one of the temple mountains, there were hawkers who would sell tins of cold beer. The price was a fairly uniform 4000 riel (from memory), but sometimes there were more hawkers than tourists. I told my guide he should negotiate with a hawker so that the guide would always bring his tourist to the specific hawker, and in return, the hawker would sell the beer for 3000 riel. The guide wouldn't make anything on the day, but would almost certainly get a bigger tip at the end of the tour, for being so clued up. He liked the idea!