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Coins I Found in My Wallet
It turns out that I have coins from three countries.
My wallet is a mere formality. It is always inside my pocket when I go out, but I barely use it to keep cash. I already go cashless.
When I happened to check my wallet out today, I found all but coins. It was interesting to me because I thought my wallet was empty all the time.
It turned out that I always had coins with me, and they were in three different currencies.
Singaporean dollar
It’s been more than a year since my last transit in Singapore. The coins that ended up in my wallet were a change for the Japanese curry I bought at the airport’s convenient store, Seven Eleven.
I have never peeked at the dollar coins since then and have always forgotten about their existence in my wallet.
Greek euro
In Greece, more than 90% of my transactions are through tap-to-pay machines. Only once in a while do I withdraw cash.
Cashless payments are almost prevalent in the country. Only once did I get refused from getting on a local bus…
