When is 10 Yuan not 10 Yuan?
When it’s an Olympic 10 Yuan:
Hundreds of thousands of people around the country queued at local banks to get one of special Olympic bank notes on July 8, exactly one month before the start of the Olympic Games. Some of them waited overnight to secure a favorable place.
I saw a group of people lining up in front of a Bank of China on Tuesday around midnight, and it was, to say the least, perplexing. But such is Olympic fervor… sort of. Timeless money fervor is more like it.
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