the SQUAW-buck
 

I get them from post office vending machines. It would be great if they would take hold. We might be able to move the decimal place over and do away with pennies AND nickels.

Re: the SQUAW-buck
 

I don't know how the other 280 million Americans feel, but...

--I hate carrying change around. I hate carrying money around period. That's why I love the Visa debit card. The Susie flopped. I don't see the Squawbuck winning too many fans either. It IS cool though.

--Isn't there some lawmaker that wants to get rid of the penny? I'm all for it. Abe's already on the 5-spot. France got rid of the equivalent of their one cent piece a while ago...of course, they have the Euro coming soon though.

--The nickel is the most disrespected piece of currency we have. But it is useless as all hell.

Originaly posted by sycamore:     It's not completely uselsess, back in high school a bunch of us graduated from penny flicking. We moved up to the much heavier nickel? Ever been hit by a flying nickel. It hurts.... So you see it's not completely useless.

When I was in high school I got a job at a bank rolling coins in the vault.

They had this big machine just for rolling coins. I'd come in to work and there'd be piles and piles of bags of loose coin, each bag weighing about 10 pounds. I think one bag of quarters was $500, and a bag of pennies was $50. That's all I did -- dump bags of coins into this machine and take the resulting rolled coins and put them in boxes.

Anyway, while there I developed an intense hatred for dimes. Dimes were so thin that they would get stuck in every imaginable crevasse of this machine. There was not a minute opening anywhere in this machine that a dime could not find its way into at least every half-hour, and make the whole contraption come to a screeching halt. They weren't that easy to pry out, either.

Everyone at the bank would go into rants every so often about how stupid dimes were. "Dimes are the enemy".


heheh. ahh, memories.

golden dollar coins
 

These are definitely in circulation. The Navy uses them in their vending machines.

I can get you some if you want.

Brian

I'm converting.

Tuesday, January 1, 2002
1 Canadian Dollar = 0.70507 Euro
1 Euro (EUR) = 1.41829 Canadian Dollar (CAD)

Median price = 0.70419 / 0.70507 (bid/ask)
Estimated price based on daily US dollar rates.

You may recall the controversy when the new Canadian $10 bill (pictured in an earlier post above) was issued with the verse of "In Flanders Fields" as follows:

"In Flanders Fields the poppies blow ..."

Well, that's the Flanders in Belgium, not in The Simpsons. Homer Simpson would be quick to point out that the verse should read "grow" not "blow" but that has been clarified by snopes.com:

http://www.snopes2.com/business/money/canada1.htm

So, we're all clear now ... in Flanders Fields the poppies blow ... and in Canada ... the dollar blows!

Why are U.S. "Greenbacks" green?

Here's an explanation by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Treasury folks who print U.S. paper currency notes:

http://www.bep.treas.gov/document.cfm/18/108

Re: 2 questions
 

Soviet currency had a 2 Kopek piece.

You used it to make a phone call from a public pay phone.
Among other things, you could also get 2 packs of matches for it.

http://www.rustypennies.com/catalog/pix/ae839.jpg

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/wor...germany.ap.jpg

Fireworks light up the sky around the Euro monument in front of the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.

New Year's celebrations mark the end of the beginning for the Euro, and the beginning of the end for the Deutsche Mark.

They removed 1 and 2 c peice here, smallest now is 5c. The milkbars had to sell lollies as bundles now instead of individual piece but the rest of the ountry yawned and rolled over.

I liek the idea of hte Euro, and it gives europe a simial financial powerblock to the US Greenback ,if it ever stop getting raped by US hedgefunds that is.


Don't like that idea of RFID tags in the high end notes though.

The populations of 12 countries acting together in one big Euronation....

Jag, I really enjoy the turn of some of your phrases. quite lyrical at times...

Hmm.. I wasn't going to say anything before, but since you've brought it up.   :)   What in the world is a milkbar, and what is a lollie?

Milkbars = Convenience Stores
Lollies = Suckers

I think.

But not in all the countries of the European common market, I'm sure.