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My co-posters from the United States, please tell me this is not true
You used to have such pretty money. This is as if a child finger painted something...
well, we might as well demonstrate the IQ of the people running the government properly.
costa rica's got the best looking money.Ours isn't too bad either.
Why is Keanu Reeves on the 10 Dinar note?
Any money with sharks on it is good money.
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Why is Keanu Reeves on the 10 Dinar note?costa rica's got the best looking money.Ours isn't too bad either.
Lol, that's Vuk Karadzic, he is the dude who made Serbs literate by greatly simplifying the written language so that it can be accessible by the masses. He is the reason we have a phonetic alphabet.
i dont have a link but Bahrain has really pretty money too
In fairness it looks like a lot of the photos emphasize the various watermarks and stuff to help make it hard to counterfeit. It probably looks a bit better in person.
$100s are very commonly counterfeited, and they're the second most circulated bill after the $1 (who the hell is circulating them I don't know). There's so many times I've seen signs though that say "hundred dollar bills not accepted due to frequency of counterfeit bills" so it really is a problem.
So don't like the new look? As it's largely entirely to make it harder to counterfeit, blame the a$!!*&*s who made that necessary in the first place.
psycho-delic! I can't wait until the next generation of counterfeiters breaks the bank.
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we're working on our money, sometimes one bill at a time... nsfw cuss word
Meh. As long as it spends the same. Though, thinking about it, I rarely use cash anymore these days.
Yeah, we really need to get on board with completely different colored bills. And eliminate the $1 bill and the penny while we're at it. I've never understood "people don't us them" as an argument against the $1 coin. Quit making the bills, and people won't have a choice. Problem solved. :)
I want the pretty rainbow money!
My favorite currency is Australian. I love the clear windows.
They are also made of plastic, have holograms, alternate male female famous Australians and include indigenous people.
Also the Polymer Note was invented in Australia.
£10 drops all the mics
The image doesn't load properly for me but I am guessing from the bald dome and humming bird it's Darwin....
Fair point
£10 drops all the mics
I WANT IT SO BAD!
In fairness it looks like a lot of the photos emphasize the various watermarks and stuff to help make it hard to counterfeit. It probably looks a bit better in person.
$100s are very commonly counterfeited, and they're the second most circulated bill after the $1 (who the hell is circulating them I don't know). There's so many times I've seen signs though that say "hundred dollar bills not accepted due to frequency of counterfeit bills" so it really is a problem.
So don't like the new look? As it's largely entirely to make it harder to counterfeit, blame the a&!~+#~s who made that necessary in the first place.
Banks use them. They are the largest bill in use these days. Not like the good old days when we had 100,000.00 bills and such. Ones and twenties top the list for regular folks and most businesses I believe.
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Its counterfeit proof!
The forger vomits while trying to hold their hand steady
Interesting note on notes:
Some of the older designs for USA currency had large artworks on them to help educate people on USA history.
Who the heck uses cash?
/boggle
My co-posters from the United States, please tell me this is not true
You used to have such pretty money. This is as if a child finger painted something...
It's the $100 bill, and as far as i know only that. Unless you deal drugs or work at a bank, you're very unlikely to see many of those.
I actually like some of the changes (the raised printing to make the bills discernible from other denominations as well as the quill and inkwell) ... honestly I always felt US currency was rather bland in comparison to a lot of others.
It was bland. Now it's leaning towards tastelessly garish. You can put a ton of security features in and still make it pretty, for pete's sakes!
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I actually like some of the changes (the raised printing to make the bills discernible from other denominations as well as the quill and inkwell) ... honestly I always felt US currency was rather bland in comparison to a lot of others.It was bland. Now it's leaning towards tastelessly garish. You can put a ton of security features in and still make it pretty, for pete's sakes!
Oh I don't disagree. The parts I do like (the raised printing to get the bills closer to ADA compliant, the inkwell and the quill) would work well as a basis for a new currency. The fact they are trying to keep so many elements of the old design is what is causing the real problems.
Oh I don't disagree. The parts I do like (the raised printing to get the bills closer to ADA compliant, the inkwell and the quill) would work well as a basis for a new currency. The fact they are trying to keep so many elements of the old design is what is causing the real problems.I actually like some of the changes (the raised printing to make the bills discernible from other denominations as well as the quill and inkwell) ... honestly I always felt US currency was rather bland in comparison to a lot of others.It was bland. Now it's leaning towards tastelessly garish. You can put a ton of security features in and still make it pretty, for pete's sakes!
Quite so! I'd like to see the dollar bills dropped, though. I really did love the Sacajawea coins; I grabbed as many as I could before they got axed.
My favorite currency is Australian. I love the clear windows.They are also made of plastic, have holograms, alternate male female famous Australians and include indigenous people.
Also the Polymer Note was invented in Australia.
Canada has these too.
What advantage would a dollar coin have over a bill?
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What advantage would a dollar coin have over a bill?
It hurts more when slingshot-ed at an annoying sibling.
One of my many jobs in the past was as a bank vault teller. That meant I handled the shipments of bills to the bank from the Fed (literally pallets full of bills). I also handled the large deposits from major retailers, which involved running through reams of $100 bills. We were taught how to identify counterfeits and we found a lot of them. This was back 30-35 years ago, and they've changed the bill design twice since then to make it harder to counterfeit.
Back then I could generally find the counterfeits more by feel than by sight. Some of them looked nearly perfect but you could feel the difference between them and real bills. If I counted a stack and wasn't sure, I'd recount with my eyes closed.
We did not have any electronic or mechanical means to spot countrfeits and if we sent any to the Fed in our shipments of retired bills, we'd lose the money, so training on how to identify such bills was a major part of our job.
Counterfeiting is a major problem. The government does all it can to downplay the extent of the problem so it's hard to even find accurate estimates of the economic impact.
Dollar coins are still being minted. Unfortunately they have not succeeded in their main mission, which was to wean people off the paper dollar.I'd love to see the rebirth of the $1, $5, $10 and $20 coins. Not necessarily get rid of the bills, but I would like to have larger denomination coins.Technically the US still mints coins in $5, $10, $25, $50, and $100 denominations.
Of course this is only technically true because they're bullion coins with intrinsic, collectable, and numismatic value far in excess of their official value. For instance $50 gold Eagles were selling from the US Mint for $1,835.00 at one point last year.
So would it be possible to simply stop printing dollar bills? It worked in Canada, and I think it's marvelous to be able to refer to some of your money as "loonies and toonies". Of course the wingnuts would yell for awhile, but eventually the coins would win out.
I tend to prefer using my debit card to pay for things, but when I must use money I prefer cash over coins by a wide margin. Cash I can keep in my wallet. Coins, not - they tend to get piled in a jar or something until I can turn them in at a CoinStar or something for cash or store credit.
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I tend to prefer using my debit card to pay for things, but when I must use money I prefer cash over coins by a wide margin. Cash I can keep in my wallet. Coins, not - they tend to get piled in a jar or something until I can turn them in at a CoinStar or something for cash or store credit.
Yes, but think about how much more your jar of coins would be worth!! ;)
So would it be possible to simply stop printing dollar bills? It worked in Canada, and I think it's marvelous to be able to refer to some of your money as "loonies and toonies". Of course the wingnuts would yell for awhile, but eventually the coins would win out.In theory. Considering the stink raised over light bulbs and the Fed bring vehemently opposed to discontinuing the dollar note, it's probably practically impossible.
What on Golarion has the Fed got against dollar coins? Considering the increase in durability and difficulty of counterfeiting, that seems utterly illogical.