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Of all the money in the world, which one do you like best? Pound, dolllar, euro?

I had some chinese coins, I dont know what value...but when I flipped them in the air they would ring like bells...in other words they would resonate through the entire spin...it sounded beautiful.

rupees, sounds like either a dog food or something you go to the doctor with

Pounds.

I like shiny paper currency.

Dollars. But, more specifically the nickel. Also, the half dollar for flipping and the dollar coin.

Pounds.

pfft even when you make pound towers they collapse all over the place :D

Dollars... I guess because I live in America.

Old English: Pounds, Shilings & Pence (inc. Farthings, Half-crowns, tuppences, bob's and the like)

It's just the way you could give prices like, "That'll be Three pounds two and six".
Wonderous!

If it doesn't have gold in it, I don't like it. But since there aren't anymore of those, I will say I like the Mexican peso the most. Also, I least like the Euro. It looks like Monopoly money.

I think Euros are cool :P . That's enough to get you a smack in the face in the UK.

Definitely the Euro, more for what it represents than its shape. A cross-national currency of a supranational entity, spread by agreement and controlled by an independent Central Bank? I like that idea.

The American Dollar.

Oh this is simple. Nothing sums up the British like the term 'Pounds Sterling'.

That mix of imperial haughtiness combined with economic catastrophe. It just cannot be beat.

:D

i really like Czech ones... i went in the Prague some time ago and i really liked the coins, cuz they got dragons and lions and stuff like that.

Pounds sterling. Just looks nice, feels nice. Euros are dull as dishwater, dollars don't feel nice. Czech Kurunas are quite nice, mind. Those're the only four I've handled. That are current.

euros

mine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Canadian_bills2.jpg

http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/images/images&downloads/coins.jpg

Uh.. I seem to remember someone having currency from like...mongolia or smething, and it was made of cheese...

either that, or i am crazy.

Not sure but I really hate euros.

Euros of course, I can pay everywhere i go with them, without having to exchange.

I like Gooooold

I never understood the attraction to gold. It has very few practical purposes outside possibly dentistry and aesthetically, it doesn't strike me as particularly attractive. Surely platinum would serve as a better currency if the coins were themselves to hold their value?

I miss the French franc. The banknotes used to have Claude Debussy, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Paul Cézanne, Gustave Eiffel, and Pierre and Marie Curie on them. There's just no beating that.

why would i like any currency "best"?

its just money.

i like the dollar because when i take it to the store i can buy things with it. the other currencies are more difficult to spend here.

Costa Rican Colones. Very nice looking.

Look at Cambodian money.

The smiling children on it - considering the country's recent history - is a powerful message of hope.

I like it.

I love all money (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkhOhUkhIFA)

Frank. coolest name.

I never understood the attraction to gold. It has very few practical purposes outside possibly dentistry and aesthetically, it doesn't strike me as particularly attractive. Surely platinum would serve as a better currency if the coins were themselves to hold their value?

I'm guessing you don't actually know anything about gold, because you're way off.

1) Gold is very corrosion resistant, most acids won't react with it.
2) Gold is an excellent conductor and is used in all manner of electronic components. That computer you're sitting at is loaded with gold.

Apparently I stand corrected.

Ausd

Women

Yen are somewhat entertaining to me, actually...

Definitely the Euro, more for what it represents than its shape. A cross-national currency of a supranational entity, spread by agreement and controlled by an independent Central Bank? I like that idea.
Yay!

Anything, really... as long as I've got lots of it, and can change it into lots of Euros.

Definitely the Euro, more for what it represents than its shape. A cross-national currency of a supranational entity, spread by agreement and controlled by an independent Central Bank? I like that idea.

Why???

I like the US dollar and the pound. I also liked the old German duetchmark (sp?).

Why???

I like the US dollar and the pound. I also liked the old German duetchmark (sp?).

I hope you're referring to the German coins, not those silly candy-coloured notes that were the last incarnation of the Deutschmark...

Pounds sterling. Just looks nice, feels nice. Euros are dull as dishwater, dollars don't feel nice.

Have you seen the new £20 note, though? That looks like a Euro. It doesn't seem right at all.

I hope you're referring to the German coins, not those silly candy-coloured notes that were the last incarnation of the Deutschmark...
Yeah, the coins. I never saw a german bill.

The Sud Afrikan Peon.

Why???
Just imagine that in the U.S. every single state had its own currency, each with different exchange rates.
Maybe you'll understand then?

why would i like any currency "best"?

its just money.

i like the dollar because when i take it to the store i can buy things with it. the other currencies are more difficult to spend here.

i like the euro for what it represents, as has been said, but also because of the clear differentiaion of colour and size of notes, and differing shapes and sizes of coin. i found american notes fairly hard to deal with iirc because they were all pretty much green, for example

Yay!
indeed :)

Just imagine that in the U.S. every single state had its own currency, each with different exchange rates.
Maybe you'll understand then?

That would certainly be a boon to the numismatic community . . .

Just imagine that in the U.S. every single state had its own currency, each with different exchange rates.
Maybe you'll understand then?

But Europe isn't one country...its a group of countries...

GBP

The pound coin is my favorite piece of money period, and they have Charles Darwin on the 10-pound note.

whatever i'm able to use to buy stuff from the nearest shop.

Whichever one gives me the best exchange rate when I'm travelling. :D

Just imagine that in the U.S. every single state had its own currency, each with different exchange rates.
Maybe you'll understand then?

That happened once in American History. Of course, that was before the US had a unified currency :)

But Europe isn't one country...its a group of countries...

Most of which did a way with their own currency and moved to the Euro. Now they have one currency.

Most of which did a way with their own currency and moved to the Euro. Now they have one currency.

I know that...

i like the euro for what it represents, as has been said, but also because of the clear differentiaion of colour and size of notes, and differing shapes and sizes of coin. i found american notes fairly hard to deal with iirc because they were all pretty much green, for example
indeed :)
I can only agree. :D
That would certainly be a boon to the numismatic community . . .
Hey, good thinking. ;) I like the new Quarters.
But Europe isn't one country...its a group of countries...
With a common market... without border control...

I liked pound coins. I was 6ish when I visited London (last I recall) and remember how fun it was to have these nice, heavy coins to pay for stuff with.More recently I've become rather fond of 1 euro coins. They've got a nice, sort of light clink-y quality to them. And the fact that they're 2 colors and have different designs make me love them all the more. I think I have coin ADD... but I love the idea of having a larger value per coin, I live in the US and wish there was a usable dollar coin around here, its such a pleasant surprise to find that all the change in your pocket amounts to so much.

I liked pound coins. I was 6ish when I visited London (last I recall) and remember how fun it was to have these nice, heavy coins to pay for stuff with.More recently I've become rather fond of 1 euro coins. They've got a nice, sort of light clink-y quality to them. And the fact that they're 2 colors and have different designs make me love them all the more. I think I have coin ADD... but I love the idea of having a larger value per coin, I live in the US and wish there was a usable dollar coin around here, its such a pleasant surprise to find that all the change in your pocket amounts to so much.

Then rejoice my friend! A new dollar coin was released a few months ago! Go to the bank and get some!

I like American coins. Maybe because I'm American. But I like European bills (or as they call them, banknotes)

Then rejoice my friend! A new dollar coin was released a few months ago! Go to the bank and get some!

I noes. but they always seem to get abandoned pretty quick. That makes me sad.

Then rejoice my friend! A new dollar coin was released a few months ago! Go to the bank and get some!

Guh? What's on it? Hadn't heard.

I just hope it's not some sissy Sacagewea thing again. Washington, Lincoln, Andy Jackson - the faces of our most common currency - all killed at least several thousand people in an official capacity. How many did Sacagewea kill, again? That's right, none. I want to smell blood when I look at my dollar. :p

Guh? What's on it? Hadn't heard.

I just hope it's not some sissy Sacagewea thing again. Washington, Lincoln, Andy Jackson - the faces of our most common currency - all killed at least several thousand people in an official capacity. How many did Sacagewea kill, again? That's right, none. I want to smell blood when I look at my dollar. :p

As of right now? George Washington, followed by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. You get the idea.

I think my favorite former dollar coin was the really big one. Just because it's kind of useless anyway, may as well be really huge!

As of right now? George Washington, followed by John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. You get the idea.

Aha, interesting. I might have to collect a few, though I disagree with the concept of circulating the images. A coin should be iconic and solid, not a rotating set of pictures. But it's still fun. :)

Liberty Dollars, because they're backed by real gold and silver.

Aha, interesting. I might have to collect a few, though I disagree with the concept of circulating the images. A coin should be iconic and solid, not a rotating set of pictures. But it's still fun. :)

I'm waiting for the Nixon one.

waiting...

At 4 presidents a year in the order they served...it might take some time.

I'm waiting for the Nixon one.

waiting...

At 4 presidents a year in the order they served...it might take some time.

Yeah, it's probably a fifteen-year project. It'll be interesting to see what designs they come up with.

I had some chinese coins, I dont know what value...but when I flipped them in the air they would ring like bells...in other words they would resonate through the entire spin...it sounded beautiful.

Urghh... I swear I read that and saw 'I had some cheese coins'. I can even picture the word 'cheese' in that sentence now in my mental picture. *slaps face*
EDIT:
Uh.. I seem to remember someone having currency from like...mongolia or smething, and it was made of cheese...
either that, or i am crazy.
...Huh. Coincidence?

Urghh... I swear I read that and saw 'I had some cheese coins'. I can even picture the word 'cheese' in that sentence now in my mental picture. *slaps face*
EDIT:

...Huh. Coincidence?

Coincidence? I think not! But mostly because that's fun to say...

Spanish silver dollars and the gold stuff as well. :D

I like Australian currency actually.


It's pretty colours, easy to tell the notes apart.
It's plastic, you can wipe it clean and it goes through the wash ok.
The eminent Autralians on each are male and female (one of each)
It's got pretty patterns and a dinky transparent bit.
Each note is unique, not just the serial number.


The lowest denomination (A$5) has the Queen on it, and if a note gets creased it's a bit hard to use in vending machines, but apart from that I like it. EDIT: I don't see a hologram? Perhaps it fell off?

The coins are rather plain, I used to like the 2c before it was obsoleted.
I like the 1 franc piece, with the two types of metal.

Here's a funny thing I found in Wiki:

In 1965 the Prime Minister at the time, Robert Menzies wished to name the currency "The Royal", and other names such as "the Austral", "The Oz", "The Boomer", "The Roo", "The Kanga", "The Emu", "The Digger", "The Kwid" and "The Ming" were also proposed.

Damn. "Hey, mate, can you spare a Roo?" would be so much better than boring old dollars.

Here's a funny thing I found in Wiki:

In 1965 the Prime Minister at the time, Robert Menzies wished to name the currency "The Royal", and other names such as "the Austral", "The Oz", "The Boomer", "The Roo", "The Kanga", "The Emu", "The Digger", "The Kwid" and "The Ming" were also proposed.

Damn. "Hey, mate, can you spare a Roo?" would be so much better than boring old dollars.

Weird. What do the other ones stand for? I understand Emu, Oz and Austral for what they stand for, but what's a Ming, Kwid, Digger and Boomer? :p

Weird. What do the other ones stand for? I understand Emu, Oz and Austral for what they stand for, but what's a Ming, Kwid, Digger and Boomer? :p

Menzies was known as "Ming the Merciless" in much the way Howard was "Little Johnny"
We could hardly call it a Quid if it wasn't one, could we?
The Digger is from the WW1-era name for an Aussie, because we were seen as gold-miners (literally people who prospected for gold, it was rather huge)
Boomer would probably be from boomerang, a wooden hunting weapon of the aborigines. Just guessing.

"A hundred Joeys to a Roo" ... what a missed opportunity!

Arrrr....that be Gold Doubloons, m'hearties.

I like the euro, not sure why.

Menzies was known as "Ming the Merciless" in much the way Howard was "Little Johnny"
We could hardly call it a Quid if it wasn't one, could we?
The Digger is from the WW1-era name for an Aussie, because we were seen as gold-miners (literally people who prospected for gold, it was rather huge)
Boomer would probably be from boomerang, a wooden hunting weapon of the aborigines. Just guessing.

"A hundred Joeys to a Roo" ... what a missed opportunity!

Heh. Thanks for the explanation. I should've known the boomer it seems, but the rest was new to me. :)

Heh. Thanks for the explanation. I should've known the boomer it seems, but the rest was new to me. :)

You're welcome. :)

Hey, do the Chinese coins have like Mao Zedongs face on one side, kinda like our coins have the queens head? If they do the Yuan is my fav.

I like Australian currency actually.


It's pretty colours, easy to tell the notes apart.
It's plastic, you can wipe it clean and it goes through the wash ok.
The eminent Autralians on each are male and female (one of each)
It's got pretty patterns and a dinky transparent bit.
Each note is unique, not just the serial number.


The lowest denomination (A$5) has the Queen on it, and if a note gets creased it's a bit hard to use in vending machines, but apart from that I like it.

The coins are rather plain, I used to like the 2c before it was obsoleted.
I like the 1 franc piece, with the two types of metal.

Here's a funny thing I found in Wiki:

In 1965 the Prime Minister at the time, Robert Menzies wished to name the currency "The Royal", and other names such as "the Austral", "The Oz", "The Boomer", "The Roo", "The Kanga", "The Emu", "The Digger", "The Kwid" and "The Ming" were also proposed.

Damn. "Hey, mate, can you spare a Roo?" would be so much better than boring old dollars.

You didn't mention the "hologram" that tends to fall off and fade.

Heh. Thanks for the explanation. I should've known the boomer it seems, but the rest was new to me. :)

Digger also is used as a by-word for an Australian soldier or serviceman/women, this is because of the ANZAC WWII Gallipoli in which our troops literally made to dig trenches under enemy fire.

Digger also is used as a by-word for an Australian soldier or serviceman/women, this is because of the ANZAC WWII Gallipoli in which our troops literally made to dig trenches under enemy fire.

Nobody seems to know for sure. But Aussies were known as diggers before that because of the goldrushes, and the "diggers because they dug in" explanation would apply equally to soldiers of other nationalities. The war was mostly trench warfare after all, and Canadians and British had a pretty hard time a few beaches along from Gallipoli. They weren't known as Diggers?

Perhaps Aussies were just better at it :p

I like the south korean Won and the deprecated slovenian Tolar. Yes, there are purely aestheic reasons behind that choice.

Of all the money in the world, which one do you like best? Pound, dolllar, euro?

I like euro - mostly because of the verso of the euro coins, it is different for each country of the eurozone.
The swiss franc has also nice coins.
The italian lira had the best design, though, but no lire anymore.

Of all the money in the world, which one do you like best? Pound, dolllar, euro?

The kind I can spend.

anything that doesn't have pictures of humans on it. maybe buildings on one side and critters/forests on the other. i don't have any great love for the concept of currency. and either tecnology or the rude awaikening of environmentally precipitated economic collapse will eventually make it obsolete in any of a number of several ways.

your own sweat is one currency that is of intrinsic worth. something to eat is another. infrastructure itself, and the sweat to make food and infrastructure available is as much as anyone other then one's self has any valid claim to.

actually even the sweat to make any more infrastructure then you're willing yourself to live without has no valid mandate.

i mean i'm not ragging on it out of some arbitrary priestly fantasy, but rather the self distructive road of environmental callusness of economics' self proclaimed devorce from ecological reality.

so it's kind of hard for me to 'love' bizdroidism and the way of life it snares us with, when it has become an uncontrollable monster, devouring all. sure there's an illusion of softness, but one which only accumulates more and more absurdly unnatural difficulty for itself as time goes on.

i ramble wide, though not irrelivantly, of the mark. odd currency, though of rational denomination might be ok, where the option to use any at all is locally choosen. odd shapped bits of flat plexi, perhapse with a bit of different colored tinting to denote the denominations. and no damed immages of humans.

the cameroi'n dream is litteraly that. a dream of a kind of do it yourself, half way potlatching, hobbiest 'economy', with little or no need for anything resembling currency at all. not some kind of symbolic and symbolicly exchangable 'value', as the concept of currency is.

=^^=
.../\...

hmm...that would have to be a automatic rifle:sniper:.It's like having a credit card without limit,just gotta watch out for those bill collectors(police and any other enforecer).;)

I like shiny paper currency.

I like my plastic money.

I'm guessing you don't actually know anything about gold, because you're way off.

1) Gold is very corrosion resistant, most acids won't react with it.
2) Gold is an excellent conductor and is used in all manner of electronic components. That computer you're sitting at is loaded with gold.

I thought that they just plated gold on. That way you'd use far less of the stuff.

Gold is useful because it stays more stable in value than a free floating currency.

That being said my favourite currency would be the one that would be accepted at the location I am in.

I think, in all fairness, that scottish notes are the single most amazing piece of currency ever made, because you see, if you go into a corner shop or off license in england and attempt to pay for goods, you get turned away...

SO I ARGUE! and as a scottish person i am very fond of argueing.

Plus you can impress your friends with having a huge wad of £1 notes topped with a £50 or somthing.

Menzies was known as "Ming the Merciless" in much the way Howard was "Little Johnny"
We could hardly call it a Quid if it wasn't one, could we?
The Digger is from the WW1-era name for an Aussie, because we were seen as gold-miners (literally people who prospected for gold, it was rather huge)
Boomer would probably be from boomerang, a wooden hunting weapon of the aborigines. Just guessing.

"A hundred Joeys to a Roo" ... what a missed opportunity!

I think a Boomer is a term for kangaroo

In fact...

boom.er (boomer) n.1. A large male kangaroo. 2. Australian & N.Z. Informal.

A male kangaroo is called a boomer.

But Europe isn't one country...its a group of countries...

The E.U is becoming a confederacy.

Of course the E.U is not all of Europe...

hmm...that would have to be a automatic rifle:sniper:.It's like having a credit card without limit,just gotta watch out for those bill collectors(police and any other enforecer).;)

isn't the availability of ammo a limit? does it magicly manufacture itself out of nothing? and what about bamby having one too, and shooting back?

doesn't sound very practical to me. in the wild, nothing messess with each other just to be doing so. and lives.

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on another subject:

on the railroad, which is where i first heard the term boomer, it ment someone who didn't keep one job because it was their nature or inclination not to stay in any one place. a boomer was someone who would quit when they felt like it, and somehow was always able to get another job somewhere else.

=^^=
.../\...

I think, in all fairness, that scottish notes are the single most amazing piece of currency ever made, because you see, if you go into a corner shop or off license in england and attempt to pay for goods, you get turned away...

SO I ARGUE! and as a scottish person i am very fond of argueing.

Plus you can impress your friends with having a huge wad of £1 notes topped with a £50 or somthing.

Ah but Northern Irish notes get the same treatment and i've even had them turned down in Scotland (although its not as common). Plus Scottish £5 notes always seem so manky while you can get a nice shiny plastic one in NI

That happened once in American History. Of course, that was before the US had a unified currency :)

I haven't the slightest idea why we had a dog on our money...

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a353/tuebor/1DOLLARBANKOFMICHIGAN.jpg

Nobody seems to know for sure. But Aussies were known as diggers before that because of the goldrushes, and the "diggers because they dug in" explanation would apply equally to soldiers of other nationalities. The war was mostly trench warfare after all, and Canadians and British had a pretty hard time a few beaches along from Gallipoli. They weren't known as Diggers?

Perhaps Aussies were just better at it :p

Operation Human Shield: British & Canadian Edition ;) .

Operation Human Shield: British & Canadian Edition ;) .

British deaths: 21,000
French: 15, 000
Australian: 8,709
New Zealand: 2,707
Turkish: 86, 000+

Hardly.

"The British high command is worthy of almost every blame. The government, the politicians, the generals," Ornek said.

"But the soldiers I think deserve as much respect as the Anzacs and the Turks.

"The irony is that among all the allied troops, the highest casualties were the British and everywhere in the world, people think the Anzac casualties were the worst, including the Turks."

Tolga Ornek - Maker of documentary - Gallipoli

Definately the New Zealand Dollar notes. Not only do they look really really cool, but they are literally indestructible. Trust me... i've tried very hard.

British deaths: 21,000
French: 15, 000
Australian: 8,709
New Zealand: 2,707
Turkish: 86, 000+

Hardly.

I was trying to say that the Australians/New Zealanders used the British & Canadian (though it is french it seems) as human shields whilst digging trenches.

That (Gallipoli) was a farce I admit.

I was trying to say that the Australians/New Zealanders used the British & Canadian (though it is french it seems) as human shields whilst digging trenches.

That (Gallipoli) was a farce I admit.

Please accept my full apologies then :)

Oh this is simple. Nothing sums up the British like the term 'Pounds Sterling'.

That mix of imperial haughtiness combined with economic catastrophe. It just cannot be beat.

:D

Quite, quite. I couldn't have said it better myself. The sun always shines on the Queens money, somwhere on earth...:cool:

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on the railroad, which is where i first heard the term boomer, it ment someone who didn't keep one job because it was their nature or inclination not to stay in any one place. a boomer was someone who would quit when they felt like it, and somehow was always able to get another job somewhere else.


A boomer is also apparently a psychedelic mushroom.

But the person who told me that was jumping up and down and talking to an imaginary person over my shoulder, so I'm not so sure. Byron Bay Blues Festival, and Ben Harper owned it with his "hey, there's no-one on stage let's play" attitude. Phew!

I like the image of a boomerang, throw it and it comes back, but I'm afraid Barringtonia is right. I've heard that too, and there's the dictionary.

It's a 'Roo. One boomer to a roo. One Kwid to a Kiwi. We were all equal in the end.

isn't the availability of ammo a limit? does it magicly manufacture itself out of nothing? and what about bamby having one too, and shooting back?

doesn't sound very practical to me. in the wild, nothing messess with each other just to be doing so. and lives.



Of course you have to apply for one (get bullets and the gun itself) but after you get it you can get it renewed when you run out of credit(bullets witch you can get with the gun).It's kinda like that thing that renews itself,I forget the name of it.

Of course you have to apply for one (get bullets and the gun itself) but after you get it you can get it renewed when you run out of credit(bullets witch you can get with the gun).It's kinda like that thing that renews itself,I forget the name of it.

I'd hate to see how you remotely give others your currency...

Paper wise? Well from what I've used, the USD is my paper currency of choice, with Japan coming in second. Canadadian paper is ok... if I'm not mistaken it has kids playing hockey on the five which is kind of lame.

Coin wise however, I go with Japan. It's not so much that the coins look really cool, but I like the fact that I can actually buy something using the single 500yen piece, which is awesome.

I like the Candian one and two dollar coins, especially the two dollar coin because it has a fricken bear on it, but I got REALLY sick and tired of seeing Elizabeth II on every single other god damned coin. Same with Australia. I've never been to Australia, but my proof set has Queen Elizabeth two on every single coin.

I'd like to say our American coins are the best, but they aren't because we don't have the cool Indian head or JFK/Franklin/Statue of Liberty any more, and the Susan. B. Anthony dollars were kind of lame, and Sackagawea wasn't much better. I believe we have one dollar washingtons now, but they also look like quarters.

Enough ranting, I'll just say Japan has the best currency.

Same with Australia. I've never been to Australia, but my proof set has Queen Elizabeth two on every single coin. Enough ranting, I'll just say Japan has the best currency.

Oooohhhh yeah, every coin does have the Queen on it. The other side is nice, though. Wikipedia: Coins of the Australian dollar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Australian_dollar)

I haven't see the Yen. Must have a look at it...

Oooohhhh yeah, every coin does have the Queen on it. The other side is nice, though. Wikipedia: Coins of the Australian dollar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_the_Australian_dollar)

I haven't see the Yen. Must have a look at it...

True, I think the other sides of the Australian coins are terrific but Queen Elizabeth Two SERIOUSLY has to go.

ok

i DO have a favorite coin

it is the canadian poppy quarter

http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/coins/poppy2004.jpg

and this is why:

WASHINGTON (AP) - An odd-looking Canadian quarter with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a false espionage warning from the U.S. Defense Department about mysterious coins with radio frequency transmitters, The Associated Press has learned.

The harmless "poppy quarter" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. army contractors travelling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.



http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070507/K050723AU.html

ok
i DO have a favorite coin
it is the canadian poppy quarter
http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/coins/poppy2004.jpg
and this is why:
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070507/K050723AU.html

Even without that story that is a pretty cool looking coin.

"Spy Coins" are a pretty good idea I think. But they should have "Spy Coin" written in red on them to avert suspicion.

Best? Meh. Least favourite? Sierra Leone's. Why? It smells of feet 'cos they keep the wads of notes in their sandals. A whole world of ming.

ok

i DO have a favorite coin

it is the canadian poppy quarter

http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/coins/poppy2004.jpg

and this is why:



http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070507/K050723AU.html

It does look sort of suspicious, bright magenta with a silver backing. I'd probably have been wary too. :p

Of all the money in the world, which one do you like best? Pound, dolllar, euro?

Guilder :(

But now you can only pay with in on the Netherlands Antilles...


Euro is nice though :) I like the fact that when I travel abroad I don't have to change money (a lot)... I can only hope for the days that countries like Czech Republic and Hungary get the euro :)

Ah, I remember another favorite: the old Greek Drachma? Anyone remember that one? I think it was the world's oldest currency until the Euro replaced it. They were heavy and silver and nice. :)

It does look sort of suspicious, bright magenta with a silver backing. I'd probably have been wary too. :p

the agents were freaked because the poppy has a bit of plastic seal on it to keep the red from wearing off. they decided that it was some kind of nano technology thing. what with canada being a hot bed of nanotechnology research and center of the world spy community and all.

they kept finding them everywhere! a guy would find one in his POCKET, then in the ashtray of the rental car! it was obvious that they were being placed there by the SPIES!

the agents were freaked because the poppy has a bit of plastic seal on it to keep the red from wearing off. they decided that it was some kind of nano technology thing. what with canada being a hot bed of nanotechnology research and center of the world spy community and all.

they kept finding them everywhere! a guy would find one in his POCKET, then in the ashtray of the rental car! it was obvious that they were being placed there by the SPIES!

It does seem like a phone-call to the nearest U.S. embassy would've been more prudent. :p