Yet this same day, my local Pressing, where I bring my sumptuous linen sheets to be cleaned, mistakenly overcharged me 60 centimes, which I didn't discover until I got home. |
The monetary unit is the new drachma, equivalent to the franc, and divided into 440 100 lepta or centimes. |
The bank had put a hold on the money so they could float it a few extra days and make a few extra centimes on it. |
Go into just about every boulangerie in France nowadays and a standard baguette costs 80 centimes. |
I was going to list them all for your benefit, but it would takes to long and cost too many centimes at this cybercafe. |
On September 4, the government offered to cut fuel tax by about half the 50 centimes per litre demanded by the unions. |