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Funny Money: 9 Extremely Strange Currencies of the World
neatorama.com — Since the beginning of trade, communities have experimented with exchange mediums. These may seem strange now, but they made sense to someone at the time and place they were in use.
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- sungoddess808, on 05/12/2008, -0/+6I've seen many interesting types and designs of currency throughout my travels, but these are definitely the strangest! =)
- covertress, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3Quid pro quo?
- lucidguru, on 05/12/2008, -0/+4I think an international currency would be great thing right now... I've had enough of this government overspending and inflating my money.
- ostracize, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2international currency solves this because...
- sungoddess808, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Maybe because the value of the USD continues to drop!
- ostracize, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2international currency solves this because...
- bosssmiley, on 05/12/2008, -0/+2Rai Stones win hands down, for sheer impracticality.
No mention of stamps though? - gypsi, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3forgot to include the US Dollar
- xxvtcxx, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Hey, the USD isn't strange! it's got pictures of old white men, latin phrases, a pyramid... with an eye in it...
Fine, the USD IS strange.
- xxvtcxx, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Hey, the USD isn't strange! it's got pictures of old white men, latin phrases, a pyramid... with an eye in it...
- Hockey13, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Monetary units: None.
In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altarian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since the Ningi is a triangular rubber coin 6,800 miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Nigis are not negotiable currency, because Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination. - ostracize, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1Canadian Tire "money" is useless, you have to use a whole stack of bills just to buy anything of worth. The percentage used to determine how much "money" you get is so small you need to make several hundred purchases to get a useful amount.
- BTM08, on 05/12/2008, -0/+0Here is a wonderful video about economics. "350 Years of Economic Theory in 50 Minutes" http://www.breakthematrix.com/Economy/350-Years-of ...
- Nhmarine, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1dugg for the rhyme between funny and money... wait... I am not that easily amused....
in that case... ***** off.
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