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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Old Sarge, post: 407893, member: 15348&quot;]I was stationed in Libya and French Morocco during 1955-1956.&nbsp; We still used cents then, but that changed while I was there.&nbsp; The reason was that it was too inefficient to handle them and too costly to ship them.&nbsp; Most GI&#039;s just let them accumulate in their lockers until they rotated and then cashed them in at finance when they exchanged their &quot;floose&quot; (nickname for local currency) and MPC&#039;s for &quot;green&quot;.&nbsp; Finance hated those damn cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prices in the BX were listed in the old regular manner and rung up the same way, but were then rounded either up or down to the nearest 5 cents.&nbsp; I seem to recall that it was the theater practice to round dowwn, but memory is hazy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Paul Garner</p><p>The Old Sarge[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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