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- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4BlackFlag: By third world countries, do you mean every country that isn't USA. Even the ones that are not third world? Because I can't really think of any country, besides USA, that has only green, all green, notes.
- CohibaVancouver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As a Canadian, what I want to know is when the USA is going to get rid of the dollar bill and replace it with a $1 and $2 coin. There's nothing more frustrating than being at a hotel vending machine at 2:00 AM, desperate for a soda, watching it constantly reject your crumpled dollar bills. I know you 'had' dollar coins in the past, but you need to get rid of that paper dollar altogether and get a coin in circulation, just like they've done in Canada, the UK, the EU etc etc etc.
- Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've seen that before!
I think I got it when I passed Go and landed on Marvin Gardens..... - audiocollective, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i just got one of those things today when i got some cash from my bank... i dosent look that cool when you have it in your hand.
- bryant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Welcome to Canadian money.
- airedale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1_-_-_
- GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wish all you foreigners would quit complaining about US Centric stories. I'm sure there are sites HOSTED in your country where you can discuss stories specific to you issues. I won't come on there and complain about it, I promise.
Guess what the first use of the internet was totally about US stuff. Weird, eh? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i completely agree with you. i am in huge favour of tossing out the dollar note, just using the two, and make the dollar coin more of use. i think caving into the vending lobbiests is dumb, as the dollar coin tarnishes far too easily as they had to use an alloy that was metalically similar to the old SBA coin. So stupid. THey should had made it bigger and used a better, golden looking alloy that wont tarnish the minute air touches it.
- ManiacFive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I read somewhere that the US has had to resist really big changes in its money, its a confidence thing, theres more dollars stuffed under mattresses round the world than in the US itself, and its gotta be seen as strong, if it suddeny changes people start to worry, lose confidence, begin cashing it in, US economy crumbles. Hence, the traditional Black green dollar has stuck around longer than it should have.
Could be bollocks, but it makes sense - qpid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They always start with the higher dollar bills, because someone is many times more likely to counterfeit a higher bill than a $1.
Money is money, who cares what it looks like as long as it buys beer! - airedale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my fault :( I'll admit to being one now...
- quetzalcoatl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's all about the Hamiltons BABY!
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2As an American, I think our money is just plain ugly and outdated... But, then again, I'm a proponent of ditching the dollar and two dollar bills and replacing them with coins, and possibly getting rid of the penny.
What I can never figure out is why whenever we release a new two dollar bill, dollar coin, or half dollar coin, people keep the damn things like they were going to become rich off of them. They're worth $2, $1 and $.50 people, just use them already. - airedale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1 -_-
- bebopbass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ airdale, US isn't the only region to use the dollar/$ "asshat", New Zealand, Canada, Hong Kong, more than 20 regions use the dollar as their name of currency. Remember you aren't alone in the world.
- NobleArc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That looks nothing like Canadian money. It looks like someone spilled ketchup on American dosh. :-o
- YumZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2006/03/02/imageb3405fc3-ebc5-42b7-8545-53865f48f095.jpg
vs
http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/reality/FederalElection2000/independence/Presence/ten.jpg - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@Blackflag:
We've had the dullest money in the world (and some of the easiest to counterfeit) for ages. I don't know what you mean by "third world countries," but it sounds like you're just being a jingoistic jerk. - ManiacFive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1keeping the old ones as valid currency while they are in circulation seems a little silly though, so, They'll never not be legal tender so long as I've got some? Thats crazy! In the UK, everytime a new note is issued the old ones are legal tender for a time, but then after that they aren't, and have to be exchanged at a bank.
What's wrong with that? - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1" "As a Canadian, what I want to know is when the USA is going to get rid of the dollar bill and replace it with a $1 and $2 coin."
I'm not sure you'll ever see that. For some reason, we American's don't like them. "
That's just because we don't have them available to us. I love them.. The 1 and 2 pound coins are just damn useful for small purchases. A little hard to grok at first (I was buying my friends a round of tea this weekend and I plunked down a couple of coins thinking "My that's cheap" until I realized it was about 8 dollars worth.. lol). In regards to your scenario of "money going away", I think it makes more sense to move small purchases to coins, and reserve debit/credit cards for large purchases. - lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Reminds me of that Simpsons scene, where Homer gets kidnapped in Brazil:
"Oh, look at all that pink and purple!"
"You know, our money is so gay." - DNABeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> Just because there's a new design out doesn't mean the old ones have
> suddenly disappeared. They can still make copies of old bills.
WTF??
*sigh* circulation lesson 101
I believe the goal is to _replace_ the notes, taking the old ones out of circulation and putting the new ones into circulation. - Linuxrocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like it, not that I really care about the design of currency though...
- meyerj88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Whoopty Doo, what does it all mean Basil?"
-Austin P.
Honestly guys, I can't believe you're all getting so worked up about who has the prettiest currency. I personally don't care as long as it still buys stuff. Whatever though. You guys have a right to have your opinions. - burningheretic6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Australian notes do look the best. The never degrade in use even if they go through a washing machine (happened to me and they were fine) and they almost impossible to counterfeit with all the watermarks they have. Its about time the rest of the world, especially America who has certain governments counterfeiting their notes use plastic money.
- cwcheang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"....attempts to stay one step ahead of counterfeiters and ever-more sophisticated copying machines"
from the article:
It will take time before all the old-style green $10 bills currently in circulation are replaced by the more colorful model. The older-designed notes will continue to be valid currency for as long as they are in circulation."
they'll just continue counterfeiting the older ones. - cottees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Australian notes still look better : http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/currency.html
Even before the change to the current plastic notes, they were still more colourful. - finn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0awww, and i thought they kept the money ugly just so *we* would be more encouraged to spend it (aka, 'get rid of it'..
but no worries, compared to most paper currency of the world, the US $ still pretty drab - stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I'd hate to be a vending-machine owner at this point. Pick one damned design and LEAVE IT.
- dazman05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0While we're speaking of colour/color, check out http://www.rba.gov.au/CurrencyNotes/NotesInCirculation/. Plastic too :-)
- nomank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was at a convention in the city (NYC) and this guy tells me about the new $10 bill messing up his scanners/cashregisters. He thinks theres a chip inside so that big brother know how much you have on you e.g. when traveling on vacation with more than 10,000. hmmmmmm.... I don't think it sounds too far fetched. anyone hear anything??
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you call that colorful?
check out our (canadian) bills - MSIGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Our money just got 10 shades gayer.
- macslut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So what's to keep people from still counterfeiting the old bills? They're still legal tender. And now there are going to be several versions to check against. Even worse, with this constant switching, things happen like at a local high school where kids just made up their own $20s and said they were a new design.
- Korrigan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@chair
Interesting that AU notes have differing lengths with increasing values. Canadian notes have braille. - Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"As a Canadian, what I want to know is when the USA is going to get rid of the dollar bill and replace it with a $1 and $2 coin."
I'm not sure you'll ever see that. For some reason, we American's don't like them. The ones we did have were too close in size to a Quarter so it was confusing. Make them larger and they start to get bulky. No one wants to walk around with 9 giant coins in their pocket.
The more likely scenario is that money will just go away in the next 25 years. Everything will be done with credit card, debit card, or just some biometric scanner connected to the banking system. Honestly, I rarely use cash anymore. Everything goes on the debit card so I'm never short on cash. - osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The key here is that the grocery store clerk is the one that needs to keep up with this.. I haven't used cash in... what's cash again?
- onishenko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah, debit is finally catching on in the US. 5 years ago I pulled out my debit card (from Canada) down south, and no one had any idea what it was. But it's definatly catching up now. For the first time ever, debit card sales passed cash in Canada. I'd sure love to be the guy who gets the commision cheque or user fee off every transaction.
- fuzzball963, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I would really like to see money as we know it go the way of the dinosaur for everything but the smallest purchases. You know how they talk on Star wars where you just use credit chips or in this case debit cards. It's already made for less hassle when I travel internationally as I can just swipe the card and head out.
It does beg the question though, if we do switch and go debit only will we eventually see a one world currency? The EU has euros and I've heard rumors that if that Free trade area of the America's thing passes it might eventually do the same :). World currency might not be such a bad idea, but managing it would be a nightmare. - eventide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just went to a presentation by a woman on the SS comittee to desing the next money. She talked about how the colorful $20 was designed to deter copy machines, which they do very well. Surprise surprise, ink jet printers took off and are very good at counterfeiting the colorful bills; even better than they would be at the old one-tone bills.
The most reliable way to identify a low budget counterfeit: the color changing ink on the large 20 in the lower right and the watermark on the right side. Ink jets can't really duplicate that.
They don't want to use plastic bills because they last too long (about eight years); they want to be able to changeover to new bills more quickly.
The US has the lowest counterfeit of any major currency at about 5 bills per million. Canada had a fairly high rate; they've recently updated their currency. The US is the only major currency with an agency dedicated to stopping counterfeit (the Secret Service).
The superbill counterfeit $100 bills made by North Korea is indistinguishable from a real $100. Except the magnetic ink pattern is, probably deliberately, different, so banks are able to detect them. - pandorabox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0FYI... our currency system is divided in the fact that the US Treasury and the US Mint (separate entities) do not see eye-to-eye on the subject of the dollar coin. The treasury has contracts with the companies that make the "cloth" (linen and cotton, no paper) that our dollar bills are printed on and lobbying prevents that from going away. The dollar coin will last 30 years in circulation as opposed to the bill lasting 13 weeks. The argument that people around the world depend on the dollar and we cannot demonetize it, again stupid.... no one is hoarding anything lower than a 20 in those countries and keeping the dollar bill makes no sense financially. As far as the argument that Americans won't spend them? Ridiculous since you will carry 4 quarters in your pocket as opposed to a dollar coin of similar size. On the topic of colorizing the lower denominations, 1,2,5...we should, if for any reason, for aesthetics and consistency.
- MemoryDump, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OMG! somebody has discovered a way to put color on money! Imagine that!
I never understood why the US never had color to start off with.. Welcome to a more colorful world! - splasho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"@ThePhilomath - You must be a dumb ass if you can't read the "$" - That is pretty country specific "
Please, please, please tell me that was sarcasm... - santiago1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"That was a hell of a roll.. (off the top of my head, >29 I believe)"
LOL! Marvin Gardens was the only place I could think of at the time other than Boardwalk. How about Baltic Ave -- better?
No, you are cool, you've just rolled double sixes twice, then rolled a three and a two on your final roll! HELLOOOOOO Marvin Gardens!
Unfortunately for you, someone already has three houses on it.... - B0jangles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It doesn't look to bad. Notes don't need to be colourful anyway, just stick loads of holograms and watermarks over them. The canadian mint must of been doing acid when they made theirs.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why are we still using bills
- tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0great, I get to upgrade all my bill stackers again.
yay - vdxc, on 09/29/2008, -0/+0Ummm... most counties actually have multi-coloured money, many leading countries.
the euro, gbp, au dollars for example. none of these are 'third world'.
also, to be politically correct it's an LEDC (less economically developed country) not third world. - MakinBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know how I know Australia is gay?
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