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WCT 17-21 May 2010
Binary:
--- Quote from: Akima on 21 May 2010, 02:33 ---But in the USA banknotes of all denominations are pretty much the same size, colour and design
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Wait, what? Apart from being a total failure of imagination on the part of the US Treasury, doesn't that make everyday transactions confusing and error-prone?
Akima:
--- Quote from: Binary on 21 May 2010, 04:36 ---
--- Quote from: Akima on 21 May 2010, 02:33 ---But in the USA banknotes of all denominations are pretty much the same size, colour and design
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Wait, what? Apart from being a total failure of imagination on the part of the US Treasury, doesn't that make everyday transactions confusing and error-prone?
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I guess Americans assume you can read. Or recognise the portraits of dead white men (not all of them dead Presidents despite the slang term). I confess though, that I find our different-sized, brightly-coloured polymer banknotes easier to recognise. Which is more than can be said for the portraits on them, apart from the Queen.
Dliessmgg:
Or that you are not blind.
pwhodges:
http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/28/markets/treasury_ruling/index.htm?postversion=2006112818
DoubleJ:
A ruling from four years ago, and nothing's changed. Well, the bills have gotten even uglier (go to newmoney.gov and check out the $100 bill -- it looks like Photoshop threw up on it) but they're all still the same size and shape as far as I can tell.
Oh, wait... "raised printing". Yeah, I can see that lasting more than a few weeks in somebody's wallet. Just do something simple like notch the corners. A $100 has all four corners, a $50 has one knocked off, two from a $20, three from a $10, all from a $5, and make the dollar bill half-sized. But stop making real currency look like Monopoly money.
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