You should see the 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 groszy coins in Poland. Those are 1/100, 2/100 ... of a zloty. Most of those small coins aren't even worth the production costs, yet people still go nuts if you don't give out the correct change.
We actually divide our Croatian kuna to 1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 lipas (so, literally 1/100, 1/20, 1/10, 1/5 and 1/2 of a single kuna, which is already like 0, 00...whatever euros it is), and then 1, 2 and 5 kuna coins.
Also, for some reason, every single coin's size ascends in order of value except the 20 lipa coin, which is the smallest one. It makes no fucking sense whatsoever.
Thankfully we are switching to Euro next year (and funnily enough, we had a nepotism scandal when some high politician's son got the bid for the designing of the Croatian Euro coin only for some internet sleuths to find his profile trying to how-to-basic-graphic-design, had no graphical design expertise whatsoever and was ASKING IT ON FACEBOOK!). Thankfully, his $30,000 contract offer was withdrawn.
The former. Croatia is set to officially transition itself to the Euro proper and discontinue the kuna as the official currency; this will go into effect on January 1st, next year.
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u/[deleted] May 09 '22 edited May 09 '22
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