Tired of the plain $20? Bring on the color!

[Guest CED Ordonez]

I can live with a colored bill. Stepping out of the U.S. and using the Philippines' peso for a while made me appreciate the advantages of color currency, especially the ability to easily distinguish bill denominations. Too bad their exchange rate's shit (P60 to $1 U.S. while I was there).

 

Well, as long as I can pay for stuff, I don't really care what our currency looks like. It's still better than bartering for everything.

[Guest starvenger]

Australian currency is the coolest looking...it might not be worth much, but it looks cool, and that's all we can ask for.

It's also quite durable, seeing as it's laced with plastic. Plus they have (mostly) historical figures on them as opposed to politicians.

 

Speaking of dollar coins, most Americans also seem unaware that they have a $2 bill.

[Guest The Czech Republic]

Speaking of dollar coins, most Americans also seem unaware that they have a $2 bill.

No, they're aware, and they keep them saved. For the Thomas Jefferson two-dollar bill is no longer produced, and its status as legal tender in the present-day is something I'm not entirely sure of.

 

As for $3 bills, they're just queer.

[Guest HecateRose]

The $2 bill is still legal currency, even though it is not produced anymore, it is still possible to spend them. I know this because I have spent them before, without a problem.

[Guest Samurai_Goat]

Yea, well, you also wouldn't have a problem getting someone to accept a $3 bill, either, Hecate.

[Guest HecateRose]

Hey, there are people in the US who could be convinced it was legal currency, I'm sure. I read an article once about someone using a $200 bill I believe (no such bill has ever existed as legal currency to my knowledge), and it was an obvious forgery (had a picture of Clinton on it), but some cashier accepted it anyway, just to be told later it wasn't real, and that there was nothing they could do about it except take the $200 loss.

[Guest Samurai_Goat]

Well, once a counterfeiter turned six $100 dollar bills into $10 dollar bills before he relized what happened. Some people are just stupid.

[Guest Midnight Express83]

1: the "new" bills out there now are too easy to counterfit. They have been able to do the line inbetween bills. They been able to do the second face in the dollar bill. They haven't yet done the transforming 20(or 50, or 100) note in the bottom right corner that goes from Green to Black.

 

2: New money makes it so that they can standardize it and have it so fake money doesn't work. They are trying to make it harder and harder to forge anything. That is why DLs in states change every 10 years. Because if they don't then you have Fake IDs everywhere.

 

3: It cost money to do anything. But in the end it is better because fake money on a massive scale will cause inflation. And we had enough trouble with prices flying up here in CT.

[Guest Flyboy]

Bumping old threads is fun.

 

Here's a pic of the colored bill stolen from the front of MSN:

 

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

Maybe in the next bill they'll fix Andrew Jackson's head being disproportionate to his body.