awesome new uk coins!

[Traianvs]

A tip for vending machine aficionados: If you go to Thailand, be sure to pick up a ****load of 10 Baht coins. They have the same size, weight etc as €2 coins, but they are worth a lot less iirc.

I know a friend who made good use of it. They even have the same gold rim all around, so in a busy place you can even pay with them without shopkeepers noticing it.

Hooray for petty fraud

[Wezil]

Originally posted by MarkG
a canadian coin with a bear. how typical...

What's on the Greek coin? Rocks, dirt and spindly trees or did you go with memories of past glories instead?

[Provost Harrison]

They depict scenes of buggery with small genitalia, of course...although I don't think that was adopted for the new Euro design, much to their annoyance...

[Alinestra Covelia]

Modern Chinese coins are fun. They're made of a very light aluminum alloy. Literally they would blow away in a strong wind.

We used to play a game as kids during birthday parties. Take a bucket and draw a circle on the bottom in marker. Then fill the bucket with water. (Or maybe a drowning mouse and pee and bleach. Depending.) Kids then take it in turns to drop a Chinese coin into the water and try to get it to rest inside the circle you drew.

The coins were so light they flipped and flopped plenty of times on the way down. Even releasing the coin directly over the circle was no guarantee of it landing directly beneath.


Old Chinese coins are fun too. They're the ones with the square hole in the middle so you can stack them up and carry them on a piece of string. David Copperfield did a trick in his Chinese tour where he took an American quarter and managed to make a chopstick magically go through one side and out the other. Then a local Chinese greybeard picked up his Chinese coin with the hole and did the same thing. Copperfield took it in good humor.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
They depict scenes of buggery with small genitalia, of course...although I don't think that was adopted for the new Euro design, much to their annoyance...

They had to settle for this?

[Nugog]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia

Old Chinese coins are fun too. They're the ones with the square hole in the middle so you can stack them up and carry them on a piece of string.

Still in use here - including the string at times.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Wezil
What's on the Greek coin? Rocks, dirt and spindly trees or did you go with memories of past glories instead?

most of the greek versions of the euro coins have modern (post-revolution) depictions

http://www.bankofgreece.gr/en/euro/eurocoins.asp

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


I don't care. Different denominations should be different colors AND different sizes.

USA bank notes are a real pain for tourists, they all look the same and you end end up with a pocket of mainly $1 notes that you have to sort through. Why is such a small denomination still in note format?

[Perfection]

Because they fit flat in the wallet.

Coins are for children.

[reds4ever]

I don't use a wallet. I end up with a mass of paper in my pocket that will just about buy me a McDonalds.

[Perfection]

all the cool kids have wallets.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by reds4ever
Why is such a small denomination still in note format?

Vending machines refused to use the attempts at 1$ coins we made.

[Sandman]

Maybe you should hand the rest of your monetary policy over to the vending machines.

[b etor]

Originally posted by Perfection
all the cool kids have wallets.

this is my wallet

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'm sure the other FBI agents make fun of you mercilessly .