New nickel!

“No more Monticello? Those fiends.”

“It's probably just temporary. America's coinage has been kinda staid for the last century anyway. The nickel was the only coin remaining that hadn't seen some sort of update since they started minting them.

Penny - last changed in 1959 when the Lincoln Memorial was put on the reverse.
Nickel - no change since introduction in 1938
Dime - changed in 1946
Quarter - changing every 10 weeks since 1999
Half Dollar - changed in 1976 for one year
Dollar - Sacagawea dollar introduced in 2000”

“Treasury was really hoping those dollar coins would catch on. Having to continuously produce paper dollars is costly.

Are the Powers That Be still batting around the idea of eliminating the penny?”

“The problem with putting dead presidents on our currency is that once you do it, then the currency has a constituency. They can talk about eliminating the dollar bill and the penny until they're blue in the face, but they'll always be obstructed by the Honorable Senator from Illinois or Virginia.

Personally, I'd like to see both the penny and the dollar bill eliminated. The page I linked to above states that they mint 7 billion pennies in any given year. Why? To make change with? It's absurd. And the cost of producing a dollar bill is rapidly approaching (if it hasn't gotten there already) its face value. Sure, it costs more to mint a dollar coin, but they last longer.”

“yeah, I've never understood the facination here with dollar bills, thye are worth next to nothing, take ages to stuff into vending machines and confuse you into thinking that you've got some real money in your wallet before you find out you have 13 singles - oh yeah, and colors, more colors too ;op”

“There was a story about changing the color of the currency a couple of months ago. The mint is considering all sorts of things to try and thwart conterfeiting.”

“this isn't a monopoly game here, ynami.
;-D

yeah, i hate pennies...let's get rid of them! worthless pieces of crap! maybe i should calm down...”

“yeah yeah, stick with drab green then ;op”

“LOL!! i'm all for colors. as long as we can get rid of those stupid pennies.”

“Exactly. I forget what the lifespan of the dollar bill is, but it's lots shorter than I would've thought.

People just don't want to Bother with pennies anymore. I can't even begin to guess how many of those things I have stashed away.

Don't get me started on the Georgia State Quarter, LOL... that 'peach' just looks like somebody's BUTT!

Could we have a nice oak tree? or an airplane or a sailboat?

NOOOOooooooOOOOooooooo!

We get a Fuzzy Butt!”

“They're not worth bending down to pick up, and I'm tired of having them in my pocket constantly.

Oh this reminds me of another good story. I was in the checkout line at a convenience store a couple of years ago, and this young black guy (YBG) left without taking his two cents change. The old white guy (OWG) in line behind him picked them up and called out to the YBG to say he left his change. YBG says "You keep it, I don't need it." OWG says, "But it's your money." YBG says "No, it's okay, you keep it." OWG shrugs and pockets the pennies. The dichotomy of opinion was amazing to see. To OWG, a couple of pennies == money. To YBG, a couple of pennies == garbage not worth taking from someone who picked them up for me.”

“hmmm, which president gets the yellow bill..... and which the pink????”

“I think the lifespan of a dollar bill is 18 months, or something ridiculously short. The lifespan of a coin is 30 years or longer.

The oldest coin I have in my pocket right now is a 1989 quarter, but it just as easily could have been a 1964 nickel or something similarly old. The only bills that old or older are stuffed in someone's mattress or in a collection.”

“oh, but it IS a monopoly game here, Lyra! <G>”

“I was cringing, waiting to see what Alabama's quarter would have on the back. I fully expected George Wallace's mug to be staring back at me. I was so relieved to find out they picked Helen Keller.”

“I remember hearing some FBI agents talking 10 or more years ago about how a major switchover from one type of $100 bill would cause major problems for money launderers... can't recall how that would work. I s'pose there would have to be a time limit on how long the previous esign would be honored. It sounded a little screwy to me.”

“George Wallace. Yikes, indeed.”

“Well, when we change the design of currency in the U.S., we don't invalidate the old currency. If you've got an old five or ten (or any other denomination) from a few years ago, it's still legal tender. I guess trying to deposit a lot of old currency would raise a few eyebrows, but it's not illegal.

Now, if we changed the units, say, from dollars to, oh, I dunno, quatloos or whatever, then the money launderers might have a problem.”

“yeah, well, you just landed on my property, Tilt...so you owe me a million-trillion dollars! yay!”

“There's a "going rate" joke in there somewhere...”

“I’m all for getting rid of pennies but dollar bills? No way Jose. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a go-go bar but I can’t imagine stuffing 4 quarters in a g-string.”

“That's the problem I was thinking of, Bit.


Can I be the race car? Boardwalk is sooo over-rated.”

“instead of stuffing a dollar in and waiting for change?”

“Use the "golden dollar" and put them in...oh nevermind.”

“well, finally Violin breaks it down. LOL! let's get with the program, folks.”

“Why not a 5? Ya cheapskate bastiges! LOL

Yeah... I guess it HAS been A While... "go-go bar"??”

“What do they call them down there?”

“Strip joint, titty bar, topless club. Haven't heard one get called a "go-go joint" in a long time.”

“You were reading that other thread and thinking about Barbarella, weren't you? <G>”

“Actually, the nickel was changed during WWII when it was made from Silver and included a mint mark.”

“Oh, so now you want to talk composition and minor markings, eh?”

“What was that joke about the three priests going to Pittsburgh on the train... ?”

“I'd like three pickets to Titsburgh, please.”

“And I'd like me change in nipples and dimes.”

“New Jersey won't let you have a liquor license and nude/topless dancing so we don't have strip joints or topless clubs. The nude places are 'juice bars'.”

“There's a joke there, somewhere...”

“Don't suppose they serve milk in any of those, do they?”

“thats say we met at the Korova Milkbar for some milk-plus! If you got any yarbles.


Keep'em green!!! Excessive coinage and colors is too Euro for me. Greensbacks are 'known' the world over. Why change a good thing.”

“Come to think of it the strip club is about the only place I really need to use a one... they could just sell token money for the purpose.....

quatloos? arent they used for gambling?

The treasury deptment could just reduce the number of ones it prints and people would have to use the coins.....”

“Wow. Two Kingston Trio references in the Same Month, LOL

And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar,
Spend it as fast as I can.
For a wailin' song and a good guitar,
The only things that I understand, poor boy,
The only things that I understand...



Yeah , DOM... if they didn't print so many bills, people would Have to use the coins. Maybe they thought their PR campaign was so slick folks would be begging for dollar coins (instead of mildly cursing when they receive them as change from stamp dispensing machines, LOL).”

“just more for people to hate the po for ...”