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Comments like these are generally not constructive to discussions. You are on the internet, on Hacker News, so I assume you’re probably living in a first-world country and completed secondary school or college. Which number do you think is more likely?

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I went to Turkey in 2005. The 1 lyra note was also the 1,000,000 Lyra note.

One million lira was equivalent to one new lira.

Yes. I apologize for messing up the spelling. It just struck me as amazing that they still used the old bank notes, and just cut 6 0’s off for the conversion.

I thought the guy was talking about $15 too. I figured that they completely ran out of foreign currency.

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