Monetary denominations...

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Isn't there a 100,000 or 1,000,000 one?

No $1,000,000 bills that I know of.

IIRC there are six $100,000 bills.

[Dauphin]

Anyone see that old film (originally a book by Twain?) where a guy was given a £1,000,000 note (obviously worth considerably more in the days of yore) because some old Cholmondeley-Warners from the Bank of England wanted to see the hijinx of their actions.

The guy never paid for anything because no one could give him change.

[Winston]

That's like the old anecdote of people like Muhammad Ali or Marilyn Monroe writing checks for small purchases, and then they would never get cashed because the receivers would rather frame them on their wall.

[Jon Miller]

I have seen 500 and 1000 US bills

JM

[lord of the mark]

1. Im glad to hear that UK still has "tuppence" Starts singing song from "Mary Poppins".....
2. And if we're talking nostalgia, how about the Israeli Lira?
3. US Pennies - much history, but theyre still a pain.
4. Can we ever make a dollar coin work (Eisenhower, Susan B. Anthony, and now Sacajewa) while we keep the dollar bill?
5. Every so often I see a two dollar bill.
6. The 100,000 bill was gold note, wasnt it, not a proper Federal reserve note.
7. If we replace small denomination notes with coins, as inflation proceeds, and large denomination notes with electronic transactions, will we reach a time where we still have coins, but no longer have paper money? Or will coins disappear at the same time?
8. Ecu would have been better than Euro - some history, at least.

[Zoid]

There´s some nice pics of banknotes here

Like this:

[Az]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

What always confused me is the abundance of American notes...

Abundance?

We have 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. And then rarely do you see notes above that (such as 500, 1000, etc, etc). They were mostly used before credit cards were widely adopted .

a) there's also 2$, IIRC.
b) that's 7 notes already! That's more than Israel, for sure, and more that euro notes, as well.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Az


a) there's also 2$, IIRC.
b) that's 7 notes already! That's more than Israel, for sure, and more that euro notes, as well.

$2 dollar bills are pretty rare. Enough so, you see one, you say, wow, a two dollar bill.

And here in the grand republic of the West, its bills, not "notes". Even though technically theyre "Federal Reserve Notes", no one calls them that. Notes are for eurocommies.

Forex, bills are always green, which, as everyone knows, is the color of money. "notes" OTOH, come in all different colors - same as play money.

Re: Israeli notes - I liked the one with Montefiore and his windmill on it - that was the one shekel note, huh? Also the one with Jabotinsky on it - very cool since so many of his political enemies were alive when it was released, and his direct follower was PM. I guess thats where the "put Reagan on the quarter" folks got there idea.

[KrazyHorse]

We've always called ours "bills", despite them being multicoloured

Plus we long ago abandoned 1$ and 2$ bills in favour of coins, giving us
1, 5, 10 and 25 cent, and 1$ and 2$ coins

and 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100$ bills in general circulation

[KrazyHorse]

The lack of generally circulating 2$ bills in the US, coupled with their refusal to go to 1$ coins pisses me off to no end. I always have so many ****ing bills in my pocket.

[Az]

Re: Israeli notes - I liked the one with Montefiore and his windmill on it - that was the one shekel note, huh? Also the one with Jabotinsky on it - very cool since so many of his political enemies were alive when it was released, and his direct follower was PM. I guess thats where the "put Reagan on the quarter" folks got there idea.

You made me so sad now... These are the old bills. There aren't any of those anymore.

[Zoid]

Don´t I know this guy from somewhere?



This has a nice proletarian imagery also

[Az]

IIRC, these are actually two different series of notes. The former being the later in chronological order. The second one really rules though: It has commie pics of the farmer (above), and also of the factory worker, the fisherman, and the scientist, IIRC.

Even Einstein doesn't reach that level of 'cool'.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
The lack of generally circulating 2$ bills in the US, coupled with their refusal to go to 1$ coins pisses me off to no end. I always have so many ****ing bills in my pocket.

Better than having so many ****ing coins in my pocket. That would really piss me off to no end because I hate change and just throw it in in the jar on my counter. I'd NEVER have a $1 denomination on hand.

Besides, there are $1 coins... we just don't like to use them because we all hate change .

[Az]

I really like that in the american system. I wish we had the 5 NIS and 10 NIS notes back...