I don’t know if this is real, but I want it to be.
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Let's not forget the ones with the Olympic fursona on them!
Is that really a dollarydoo, or is it like a token for the Australian equivalent of Chucky Cheese?
What the fuck? 10 year anniversary? That hurts
Colour coins? That's cursed.
Hah, that probably pissed off a lot of people. I love it.
You know what pissed a lot of people and felt VERY good? When the girl who sang the French hymn at the Paris Olympics opening was black. Oh boy did it feel right
out of stock
I'm heartbroken
It's the US, we put presidents and Founding Fathers on our bills. Harriet Tubman is neither, so of course we're not putting her on the twenty.
Instead we should compromise with historical precedent and put Obama on the twenty - he's both a president and a black historical figure and he'll piss off the people pissed off by the idea of Tubman on the twenty even more. It's a win all around!
Anyone on the $20 would be better than Andrew "Trail of Tears" Jackson. The dude also caused the deepest, by percentage not dollar amount, and longest depression in US history by paying off the national debt.
Hey, franklin pierce also sucked pretty hard. He didnt actually do anything, which is the problem. His lack of action dropped us right into the civil war iirc
I’ll get flamed for this but even trump would be better than Jackson.
The only one who I can think of that’d be as bad is Bush Jr.
That's not a rule. It's just what's been done before. There is no rule that we can't have Harriet Tubman on a bill. The universe will not end if we tell the traditionalists they are welcome to get in a time machine if they want to live in the past.
I appreciate the note about putting Obama on the bill, but the first sentence is incorrect. 😅
The $10 (Alexander Hamilton) and $100 (Ben Franklin) do not feature presidents.
Edit: welp if you Lemmy at 5 a.m then you might not be able to read well
founding fathers?
Ah I'm dumb. My mind turned off after "presidents"
I did the same and was going to comment the same, but fortunately realized my mistake, then kept reading to see you make the same one haha. What a ride.
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And poor old Hamish and Andy can't get themselves one yet.
The US doesn't feature Harriet Tubman on the $20 because it's full up with racist, slavery-denying fools who still have the mindset of an Andrew Jackson voter and would vote a wheel of racist cheese into the office of president over an eminently qualified black woman any day of any week.
Ironically, Andrew Jackson was reviled at the time. Most Americans were shocked that he got elected, and I'm unsure if he or Woodrow Wilson did more damage to the country.
Hoover, (Depression Austerity),and Truman, (Sent first troops to Vietnam), are up there too.
I would put Nuking Hiroshima and Nagisaki on the list of Truman issues as well.
At the very least Nagisaki. One could argue that the first bomb was necessary after we saw how hard the Japanese fought on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Japan had already surrendered after Hiroshima, and the only condition they asked was that The Emperor not have to step down. I hindsight I don't think that would have been an issue as he apparently wasn't the driving force behind the war.
For the world and Japan certainly. But as things that affected Americans, those advisors were far worse.
lol. bluey.
Not a Limited Edition. I handled lots of these over the years.
Honestly one of my favs, miss them lil guys
We also have a Vegemite on toast coin
Are these put into circulation or just purely collectors items?
They are legal tender but rare so their price in 10 years can be anyone's guess, maybe around $100.
I meant is it like the Sacagawea coins in the US or more like the mint runs they do?
Sacagawea dollar coin was put into general circulation, and could be obtained at any US bank. But everyone thought they were cool, so people would almost never spend them. While a mint run costs more than the face dollar value of the coin.
It's unfortunate too because coins last way longer than bills, but they have never been successful at getting people to spend them in the US.
I would love to see 1, 2 and $5 coins being used... but probably will never happen here.
Limited mint runs. They weren't introducing new denominations, just reskins.
Aussie currency is the best currency for so many reasons.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-colour-of-money-r/
Master chief on a $117 bill please.
I just paid a lot for a complete set.
Thanks for letting me know these exist!
...do other countries not have just random images on their coins because the government went "fuck it, why not"?
Nintendo lawyers are frothing at the mouth.
It says "TM" four times so that should be enough.
Austrailia doesn't either. This was a collectible coin. Their normal dollar coil is a few kangaroos on one side and Queen Elizebeth II (now it's King Charles) on the other.
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