Ghana recently changed their currency, the Cedi, basically lopping off a bunch of zeros at the end, since 10,000 Cedis had become basically equivalent to $1 US, making relatively cheap items seem astronomically expensive in the local currency ($100 would have been 1,000,000 Cedis). Now, with the new Ghanaian Cedi, issued in January of this year, 1 Cedi is more or less $1, making conversion a lot easier. But this has led to a problem where not everyone measures cost in the same way. For instance, I just bought some biscuits, and the woman at the kiosk told me they costed "5." At first I was ecstatic, 5 Peshwa (.05 Cedi, or 5 cents), for a pack of biscuits seemed incredibly cheap. But when I gave her the 20 peshwa coin she looked at me and
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