500 and 1000 peso notes, terminology

[bobg]

How do you refer to the 500 and 1000 peso bills? Mil peso billete? Cinco cien peso billete? Or something else.

Thanks, Bob

 

[sts7049]

i never knew a 1000 peso note existed. never seen one.

 

[elhombresinnombre]

The "proper" word for 500 is quinientos but that probably sounds a little too close to La Quiniela for comfort.

 

[mmoon]

Frankly, I can't believe inflation has reached this point, and so quickly. Recently, I had to exchange several hundred dollars and they only had 100 peso notes...ended up with a full pack and a half. I felt like a drug dealer, not to mention a pickpocket target.

 

[mmoon]

i never knew a 1000 peso note existed. never seen one.

Yep, they are new.

 

[Rich One]

Frankly, I can't believe inflation has reached this point, and so quickly. Recently, I had to exchange several hundred dollars and they only had 100 peso notes...ended up with a full pack and a half. I felt like a drug dealer, not to mention a pickpocket target.

That's the way it works when you sell US$1000 in a cueva counting 100 peso bills can be time consuming if a machine is not available.It's 40 packs of $1000 pesos aprox. a stack close to a foot long...

 

[TomAtAlki]

But you sure feel like a rich......one :=)

T/

 

[Margarita]

It happens. When I get the money from WU, I get many $ 1000 which makes me easy to count them, but when I have $ 100 I want to kill myself... Then I have to hide somewhere between my backpack, purse or in a just regular plastic sack.