Current Events > Why is American money so annoying?

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All the different dollar bills have the same green color, and all the coins are the same shade of gray or brown without any easy-to-read numbers on them.

Compare that to the Euro, where all the bills have different colors:
* 5 Euro bill = grayish blue
* 10 Euro bill = red
* 20 Euro bill = dark blue
* 50 Euro bill = orange
* 100 Euro bill = green
* 200 Euro bill = yellow
* 500 Euro bill = purple

And all the Euro coins have a large number on one side that easily lets you determine their value, on top of having different colors or shapes.

We said we were making a new country.

We did not say we thought it through.

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This whole thing sounds like you have vision issues

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lol, cash

Irony posted...

This whole thing sounds like you have vision issues

I am literally looking at some leftover dollar coins from my vacation right now. There's a large gray coin with a face on one side and an eagle on the other. If I look closely, I can see "quarter dollar" written in tiny print on the bottom of one side of the coin. There is literally not a single number on this coin.

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It makes it so much easier though. When my billfold was full of dollar bills on my vacation last week, I couldn't see what's what from the top. With my Euro bills, I can easily see what's what just by looking at the colors.

are you looking at 30 year old bills? they changed the colors on our money ages ago.

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They made the numbers and portraits larger and added colors to everything other than the $1. I'll give you that the coins are all pretty much the same other than size but nobody uses those anyway.

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it was an only child
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Coins are easy enough to tell apart just on their size and color. Pennies are brown, dimes are tiny, quarters are big, and nickels are smaller than quarters and have smooth edges.

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I only use $20 and $100 bills. So like only green and blue, respectively. >_>

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Normal cents are all cursed.
Got a hole in your pocket ?

Even american money is going digital these days...
Most places are starting to accept debit or credit cards only. Not many accept both cash or debit/credit cards at the same time these days anymore.

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All the different dollar bills have the same green color

bull shit. They are all different colors. If you think they look the same get your fucking eyes checked cuz you may be color blind.

Money is notoriously dirty too......



Eh?

It used to be worse.

Back in the 70s, someone thought it would be a good idea to redesign the 1 Dollar coin to be both the same size and color as the quarter (the 1 Dollar coin was huge before that). Probably part of the reason why dollar coins never really caught on.



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^this

That's a Susan B Anthony. Back in the 90's, they came out with the Sacajawea. Half Dollars are still cool, but rare. Sometimes kids give them to tellers.

The Eisenhower dollar was way better than the Anthony dollar.

Is the Sacajawea from the 90's or 00's?

Xethuminra posted...

Is the Sacajawea from the 90's or 00's?

Came out in 2000.

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Mearcstapa posted...

Came out in 2000.

Thanks.

What's the Penny rule? Heads up and it's good luck? Tails down, leave it on the ground?

Mearcstapa posted...

Came out in 2000.

And I haven't seen one since

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I somehow acquired a silver penny a few weeks back.


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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

I somehow acquired a silver penny a few weeks back.

Pics or it didn't happen. Lemme see if I can find mine

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

I somehow acquired a silver penny a few weeks back.

one of those steel pennies from 1943?

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Irony posted...

This whole thing sounds like you have vision issues

failed responses like this are always used as a deflection whenever the US makes a dumb decision. See how hard people here bend over backwards to try and defend the imperial system

When you accidentally leave money in your pockets when you do a load of washing, does it get ruined?

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Irony posted...

This whole thing sounds like you have vision issues

is that supposed to absolve american money of its problems?

Let's take your post seriously and assume hypothetically that TC DOES have vision problems.

there are many americans with vision problems who still need to be able to use money. did you know that there are countries where the cash was designed intelligently so that even blind people can use it? they can tell bills apart because they have distinguishing properties that can be felt, like different sizes for example.

Because it's American.

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Mearcstapa posted...

one of those steel pennies from 1943?

Yea.

A plain ole boring 1943 one.

Not a S-P-D whatever one.

Thinking it was a dime I wondered why the fuck the sneaky snack machine kept rejecting it.


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I like the style of the American money.

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used to be a cashier in san francisco

would get lots of tourists with tons of loose change they couldn't figure out the values of

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All american currency made in the mid 00s and later are distinctly different colors aside from one and two dollar notes.

And all of our coins are distinctly different size aside from dimes and pennies but they are different colors.

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Yea.

A plain ole boring 1943 one.

Not a S-P-D whatever one.

Thinking it was a dime I wondered why the fuck the sneaky snack machine kept rejecting it.

@PrettyBoyFloyd Its a shame you dont have a copper penny from 1943, those are worth about a quarter of a million dollars

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cavalierking posted...

used to be a cashier in san francisco

would get lots of tourists with tons of loose change they couldn't figure out the values of

Precisely this.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Coins are easy enough to tell apart just on their size and color. Pennies are brown, dimes are tiny, quarters are big, and nickels are smaller than quarters and have smooth edges.

God when read like this, our money makes no fucking sense.

Now, in our defense, our coins are different sizes to make it easy to identify what we're grabbing by touch.

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I don't know, have you seen how illiterate America's getting?

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AlBundy33 posted...

@PrettyBoyFloyd Its a shame you dont have a copper penny from 1943, those are worth about a quarter of a million dollars

Oooh interesting. I have some old pennies. If I have a 1943 penny, I'll have to see if I have a magnet somewhere to test it.

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NoxObscuras posted...

Oooh interesting. I have some old pennies. If I have a 1943 penny, I'll have to see if I have a magnet somewhere to test it.

You don't really need a magnet. Steel pennies weren't brown, they were grey, nowadays most of them are rusty. Well, the survivors. Good condition steel pennies are worth a lot of money themselves.

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because you touch yourself at night.

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I'm away from home but I'll try to get a pic of it later.

Also still have a silver quarter I discovered I had back in the early 00s.

Once again vending machine wasn't taking it.

Felt very light and made weird cling sound when dropped.


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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

I'm away from home but I'll try to get a pic of it later.

Also still have a silver quarter I discovered I had back in the early 00s.

Once again vending machine wasn't taking it.

Felt very light and made weird cling sound when dropped

Thats weird. The actual silver quarters should be slightly heavier than the copper-nickel ones.

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One of the best things about American money is credit cards are almost always the preferred form of payment.

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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Felt very light and made weird cling sound when dropped.

one of the best sounds in the world

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Being annoying is an American tradition.

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Mearcstapa posted...

Thats weird. The actual silver quarters should be slightly heavier than the copper-nickel ones.

Not necessarily. Part of why governments would pull older coins out of circulation when they contained gold and silver was so they had coins that contained the actual denomination worth, or near enough, rather than saying it was worth, 1$ but the silver content being 2 or 3. So yeah, there would be been 25 cents worth of silver, and the rest of the coin would be made up of copper-nickel or whatever they used at the time.

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i went 2 europe in 2019 and tc is right europe money is more fun than american

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Mearcstapa posted...

Thats weird. The actual silver quarters should be slightly heavier than the copper-nickel ones.

Feels like it's made from aluminum.

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this country gets to have naked tits on their money


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