We do a lot of commemorative stamps instead.
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Maybe we shouldn't have slave owners on our money? I dunno? Just maybe...
It's just monkeys singing songs, mate. Don't think too hard about it.
Wait wait wait... are you saying you don't have any commemorative coins in the USA?! Holy shit I never realised! We have special coins all the time in Europe. My kids absolutely love when they find a special 2€ coin with some cool engraving on it.
How sad! You could have so many, too! By default each country in the Euro zone has its own heads, while tails are always the same. Easy peasy!
No we do have commemorative $1 coins, Sacagawea had one and they're fairly common change from vending machines. There's an older Susan B Anthony. Harriet Tubman had one but I've never seen it.
There was a set of quarters where the back was related to each state.
Wikipedia says we're supposed to be running a series honoring inventors from every state but no one wants $1 coins, so...
As an Australian, Australia doesnt exsist...
New Zealand does though, right? Right?
Australia was just a myth, made up to scare the British lower class, but its a joke that got way out of hand and now nobody knows how to stop it
Let's not forget the ones with the Olympic fursona on them!
10 euro coins are pretty common across Europe, but only legal tender in the issuing country.
Colour coins? That's cursed.
Hah, that probably pissed off a lot of people. I love it.
I bet there are some people out there who refuse to accept these coins as change, lest they catch "The Gay".
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What the fuck? 10 year anniversary? That hurts
Zoomer posting?
They're probably surprised that it's only been legal for ten years
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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!
Salmon P. Chase was neither a president nor a founding father yet he was on a bill. Though he was qualified in that he served as a white man for, I believe, his whole life.
He put "in god we trust" on the money.
That's why he's on a bill.
Granted it's the 10k note and there's kind of an inverse relationship with value of note to respect of person.
Which is why Washington is on the 1 dollar note and Hamilton is on the 10.
Thats not even a good thing though. And why not put other historical figures on money? Would it be so objectionable to out MLK Jr or General Sherman on money?
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