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Making a mountain out of a mole hill there...
I've got a pound coin, in the other room there...
Kept it in my wallet for 12 years, then the wallet gave out, but oddly enough I have the damn coin.... My only memento of my trip to Liverpool in '89...
Somewhere in Liverpool is a kid, er, guy now, that has a dollar bill....
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I have an ancient Greek coin with the face of one of Alexander's generals on it. A friend of my uncle's gave it to me for the hell of it at a coin show. *shrug*. I have it hidden somewhere in my room (hidden so well I magically can't remember where it is at the moment...)
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And I have a $20 note in my pocket that I forgot to spend before coming back to the UK. And, er, some US coins, with their silly, silly names. And boring designs. Oh, let's make one a circle. Oh, let's make another one a circle. Oh, let's make another one a circle, and then all go and stick our penises in some kind of giant circle of shitness.
Silly names.
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I still think the funniest thing about the Euro is the fact that Scandinavia looks like a slightly deformed penis with Norway removed. But I have a very childish sense of humour.
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Florida, too, for us Americans. But yours is bigger.
As to the names of our coins, why do you find them odd? Quarters are quarter-dollars, dimes are one-tenth of a dollar, nickels are made of nickel. And pennies are pennies on both sides of the pond, for reasons I'm now curious to dig up...
Also, round coins don't have any corners to jab you in the thigh through your pocket when you sit down. And considering how most every country that mints coins tends to make them round, including the UK, I don't see your problem with round coins?
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Liam just can't Lee and Wraith be the only US bashers on the forum today is all
I really do miss the cleaner environment....
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I miss the 50 cent piece... and the 2-dollar bill. There was somethign cool about the 2 dollar bill. I have the oddest urge to go to the bank and request they change a $20 bill into twos for me. They have to do it. It's the law, you see.
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quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: Also, round coins don't have any corners to jab you in the thigh through your pocket when you sit down. And considering how most every country that mints coins tends to make them round, including the UK, I don't see your problem with round coins?
Our 20p and 50p coins are heptagonal.
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I hate inflation. Bad idea. Short-term fix to a problem that is never really solved by that mechanism, and making the inevitable end that much more painful...
I miss the gold and silver standard. I miss silver and copper coins. I want more coins, and one of the five bills with Woodrow Wilson on them...
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I have a bunch of euro coins that a friend gave me when he was over from Germany. I have a �2 coin, a �1 coin, 3 �.50 coins, a �.20 coin, and 3 �.10 coins. What's up with the �.20 coin? It has notches around it...
Also in my collection is a various assortment of other European coins, with the largest being from the Netherlands. Those .10 coins are tiny! The second largest amount would be from the UK. Other European coins I have include L.500 from Italy, 3 mils from Cyprus, 5 drakmai from Greece, 10 �re from Denmark, 5 francs from Belgium and a deutschemark. Some other interesting coins I have come from Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and my collection of utterly worthless collection of coins from the CCCP.
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I liked the 2 dollar bills also, a flight attendant named Amanda, working for Pan Am in 1989, was really in to them.... She was going to fly in to Frankfurt and we were going to spend a bit of time together, but the Army decided I needed a world war III drill and sent my happy but to the woods, and plains, and even a few small swamps through out Germany....
Fuckin' military anyway, join up and they think that they own your ass.... But I'm not bitter I tell ya!!!!
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quote:What's up with the �.20 coin? It has notches around it...
Makes it easier for blind people to identify the coins.
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quote:.. from the Netherlands. Those .10 coins are tiny!
Try fitting it inside the hole of a CD. It should fit perfectly. That's because Philips (who developed the Compact Disc) actually used a .10 coin to draw the hole 8)
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