French Franc

[PositronicRay]

While exploring her extensive handbag selection, Mrs R has found a few Francs, coins not paper dating from the turn of the century.

Does anyone have any use for them?

[vikingaero]

Shirley when you next visit France, you use them to pay for items and complain vociferously in your best English when the trader refuses to accept them?

[119]

Seeing as they haven't been legal tender for over 20 years, what on earth would anyone else do with them?

[Muzzer79]

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[Nomme de Plum]

vikingaero said:

Shirley when you next visit France, you use them to pay for items and complain vociferously in your best English when the trader refuses to accept them?

Surely

[OMITN]

Nomme de Plum said:

vikingaero said:

Shirley when you next visit France, you use them to pay for items and complain vociferously in your best English when the trader refuses to accept them?

Surely

[rodericb]

vikingaero said:

Shirley when you next visit France, you use them to pay for items and complain vociferously in your best English when the trader refuses to accept them?

Pay for something and when you get a puzzled look, boisterously say "vive la révolution!" and take your goods and walk straight out.

[Byker28i]

rodericb said:

vikingaero said:

Shirley when you next visit France, you use them to pay for items and complain vociferously in your best English when the trader refuses to accept them?

Pay for something and when you get a puzzled look, boisterously say "vive la révolution!" and take your goods and walk straight out.

along with a comment about leaving the EU so they don't have to use the Euro?

[Spare tyre]

Give them back to your wife as gift tokens to buy a French trailer at Xmas time

https://www.remorques-franc.com/

She will never redeem them so you’ll save yourself from Xmas cash

[Jonmx]

French Franc? Was he an older geezer who drove a taxi around Paris and had some slight inappropriate views by today's standards but is, nonetheless, missed on the Onionheads forum?

[mcflurry]

I've seen the coins sell for around £5 to £10 a kilo..

Here's a couple of examples off ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364847704738 and https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305513057453

[Spare tyre]

Seeing the 10franc coin instantly takes me back to being 7 in the south of france on hols with my folks, dad would give me 10fr and tell me to ps off until the “tiger club” finished

Take me back

[21st Century Man]

The till receipt still has the FF/Euro exchange rate on it as of 01/01/1992, so whilst completely meaningless in 2024 I think you could construct an argument for acceptance, otherwise what's the point of having the rate there?

[wolfracesonic]

Jonmx said:

French Franc? Was he an older geezer who drove a taxi around Paris and had some slight inappropriate views by today's standards but is, nonetheless, missed on the Onionheads forum?

FrancSept?

[wildoliver]

Spare tyre said:

Seeing the 10franc coin instantly takes me back to being 7 in the south of france on hols with my folks, dad would give me 10fr and tell me to ps off until the “tiger club” finished

Take me back

Was my daily holiday spending money too!

[Saleen836]

PositronicRay said:

While exploring her extensive handbag selection, Mrs R has found a few Francs, coins not paper dating from the turn of the century.

Does anyone have any use for them?

I'll have them for my collection if no one else wants them
Ta muchly

[Dogwatch]

21st Century Man said:

The till receipt still has the FF/Euro exchange rate on it as of 01/01/1992, so whilst completely meaningless in 2024 I think you could construct an argument for acceptance, otherwise what's the point of having the rate there?

Yes I've seen receipts with the FF shown along with the Euro. Perhaps just nostalgia as I still occasionally convert (new) pence to shillings - and don't like the answer!

[mcflurry]

21st Century Man said:

The till receipt still has the FF/Euro exchange rate on it as of 01/01/1992, so whilst completely meaningless in 2024 I think you could construct an argument for acceptance, otherwise what's the point of having the rate there?

The FRF/EUR rate is still the same in 2024 - 6.55957 (although you haven't been able to change them for over 12 years)
It's a denomination of the euro, in the same way as 100 pennies make a pound..

[RC1807]

21st Century Man said:

The till receipt still has the FF/Euro exchange rate on it as of 01/01/1992, so whilst completely meaningless in 2024 I think you could construct an argument for acceptance, otherwise what's the point of having the rate there?

The rates weren’t set until the end of 1998