American Paper Currency is Ugly. It always has been, and apparently always will be. Yes, the new bills that have some color in them are nice, but, they’re still ugly. Compare a US $20 bill…
… with the newly selected design of the Swiss 20 franc note…
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Your honor, the prosecution rests.
I mean, seriously. Look at it! It’s pretty! I’d want to have them in my wallet. Hell, I’ve been trying to score a £20 note for years simply because it’s music themed. Some of the other new francs have images of a embryo, the AIDS virus, and a skull. They’re all very colorful, contain a ton of security measures (including microperfs, small holes in the paper), color shifting ink, two-toned ultraviolet reactions, and more.
I know it’s a pipe dream that the US will jump on the neat currency bandwagon, less the world shudder like when the US announced a new $100 bill design. Until then, I’ll continue to pine for cooler currency
(via BoingBoing)
I’d be happy to take all that ugly currency off your hands.
ugly currency, the ugly American mmmmm
i was told once that the forgery of american currnecy had (has) some kind of use in the conduct of the United States Foreign policies, the availability of cash for weapons trade, the work of the NSA and the CIA worldwide, and that making the dollar note more copy proof would inhibit the work of these agencies….? that counterfeit currency actually is an asset to the Fed?? i am sorry to have forgotten the actual logic behind this theory - can anyone elucidate me?
Ugly, yes but definitely the most stable currency.
If my memory serves me, the government HAS plans to “colour up” the ole greenback and add more security features but the plan is to do it over a period of several years, stretching it out so the US and world markets don’t lose faith in our paper money.
By the time it gets anything like the Swiss franc, Euro, and the once beautiful Dutch guilder, we wont remember when it was anything different.
Stable?????????? What planet are you from “the ole greenback” has been dropping in value like a rock for almost 2 years. I’d rather have all my money in Pesos, and yes they look nicer too.
Ugly, yes but definitely the most stable currency. EXCUSE ME?!?
for your information the American Dollar is one of the most unstable currencies in the world, let alone one of the most ugly. even though the US dollar hasn’t collapsed.. yet, It is still nothing compared to our european currencies like the EURO.
So stable? Maybe in your “American” dreams
World Markets aren’t the people who get freaked out by changes in currency design. It’s people in poor countries. Unfortunately, my Google-fu is failing me and I cannot find it.. but I distinctly recall reading a story about how the US Government was distributing fliers around Russia telling people that their $100 bills will remain just as valid and worth just as much after the redesigned bills came out. Since the US Dollar was stable (at the time, at least) compared to the Russian currency, people would buy $100 bills and hide them, knowing they wouldn’t be worthless the next day.
It’s just a matter of time before the Euro takes over the dollar as the international currency of preference. Economists have argued that since the EU first started talking about a unified currency.