Commas are used where Anglo-Saxons use periods, and vice versa.
Coins consist of five, ten, twenty, fifty centimes, and one franc, five franc, and ten franc pieces.
In 1991, the old clunky ten franc piece was taken out of circulation and only the new two-tone, smaller piece is used today. Otherwise, bank notes come in twenty, fifty, one hundred, two hundred and five hundred franc denominations. As a member of the EU, France will switch to the EURO in Year 2000. The twenty districts that make up Paris, are indicated in postal addresses as the last digits of a postal code. The first two digits are the code for the city.