Worse. They LIED to us!
They said that a (new) 10-cent piece was equal in value to an (old) one-shilling piece.
But us Yilgarn kids were smart enough to count to twelve, and we noted that although last week a shilling was rewarded with twelve sugary penny-sticks, this week we received only ten.
I have never forgiven politicians for that, and today still hold them to blame for programming errors, regardless of which language I am using .
Chris
Politicians lying ? No way
When they introduced the Euro, one of the main reasons they wanted that was to push prices up.
The conversion time was very suited for making "errors" during conversion, and guess what ... all prices actually went up.
But it was hard to notice, because the "new" Euro was hard to use, at start.
They didn't convert to Euro because "it was easier to use", in context of trading between countries, or even - and that is more something practical to normal people - going on holiday, and needing to exchange at every single border.
The banks made sure they made lots of money with that as well, as they had different conversion ratios for trading in and getting money back, which is a super obvious way of saying: let us steal as much money as we want, because we can. They could have traded both ways with the same ratio, and ask a price for the fact of doing the trade/keeping money/etc., but they made more money this way ..