restriction on money INTO Egypt

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:34 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) in uk.rec.scuba,
Dave Morgan says:

>In article <c41u99$2d988c$1@ID-65533.news.uni-berlin.de>,
>boots@despammed.com (Ian Blakeley) wrote:
>
>> Saw it turned down in Sharm
>
>MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm, strange......Sharm has suffered from Money scams from
>former communist states.........perhaps it was the person rather than the
>currency that was'nt liked.... ?????????

Doubt it, one of the party I was with


--
Ian
"reorganising, a wonderful method for creating an illusion of progress"

In article <memo.20040327093450.12433A@morgand.compulink.co.u k>,
Dave Morgan <morgandgoesdiving@cix.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <c41u99$2d988c$1@ID-65533.news.uni-berlin.de>,
>boots@despammed.com (Ian Blakeley) wrote:
>
>> Saw it turned down in Sharm
>
>MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm, strange......Sharm has suffered from Money scams from
>former communist states.........perhaps it was the person rather than the
>currency that was'nt liked.... ?????????

Just back from Indonesia. Old style dollar bills are not accepted
anywhere except with a lengthy ID process at major banks. This is
due to a huge counterfeiting problem; when the US changed bills the
holders of counterfeits had to move offshore to move their stuff.
My bank tells me it applies to all non-OECD countries. Get the big
Jackson portraits ( these are the most coutnerfeited ones).

New style dollars were accepted; but in rural places they preferred
rupiah for smaller amounts. Euro's were surprisingly well accepted.
Western cigarettes were also well accepted as tips.

-- mrr

In article <2i9b4c.vuu.ln@via.reistad.priv.no>, firstname@lastname.pr1v.n0
(Morten Reistad) wrote:

> Old style dollar bills are not accepted

Oh dear..........guess we better make some new ones.....

Take out the "goes diving bit"
Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK :^)