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Discuss this story with other people. Dollar bills and bills of larger denominations were abundant. Newspaper vendors raised the price of papers from 20 cents to aquarter on Monday but often did not have change if the buyer triedto pay with a dollar bill. Shoeshine boys, who charged 4,000 sucres, the equivalent of 16cents before the sucre went out of circulation at midnightSaturday, were having problems attracting customers because theycouldn't make change. The Central Bank reminded Ecuadoreans that sucres no longer havevalue for commercial operations but said leftover sucres may stillbe switched at special locations until March 9.