Word: siroe
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...return for bills; some banks are issuing 500-lire cashier's checks that pass from pocket to pocket as legal tender. Several big department stores offer scrip instead of change, and grocers often make change in the form of potatoes or pieces of chocolate. Milan's San Siro race track pays off in scrip-good only at the track-and customers at Sorrento's Fauno Bar have been reduced to writing checks so as to tip the waiters. Inevitably, there have been floods of funny money: in Bologna, one trail of fake cashier's checks...