Why don't we just cut to the chase and let
Coke & Pepsi bid for the ad space?


Someone remind me what country this is. Every time we take another shift towards day-glo money I'm reminded of how the more garish the make-up the cheaper the whore.
This is the new $10 bill set to debut in the spring.

Yes, yes, I know it's intended to thwart counterfeiters, but they're highly adaptable.

I don't know. Maybe it's the red and orange.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I've been living with it up here for decades, Mike. It ain't that bad.

In fact, if you want to see the sort of thing the USGov ought to be aiming for in terms of style of presentation, I recommend this URL to you:

http://bankofcanada.ca/en/banknotes/index.html

Take a look and see if that isn't the sort of thing you want to see your government aiming towards.
Mike Norton said…
Oh, I had your currency in mind in part while making the entry, Dwight, and had to stop myself a couple times from being potentially insulting. After all, it's no more your fault than what's happening to ours is mine.

It's not a huge deal, and we'll take it in stride, but I prefer money that feels more dignified. It's something that'll disappear in a generation, I know, but to people roughly my age and up when we see bright colors on money we think of play money from board games.
Mike Norton said…
Granted, it's not there primarily for its aesthetics, so so long as it's functional I'm not going to throw it away. Still, "pretty" isn't what's coming to mind with this.
Anonymous said…
Seriously, have you actually looked at that site and its explanations of what we're currently using?

I really do like the designs on the current editions on several levels, to be quite honest. This will, of course, be the third design family for paper currency I've had in my hands over the course of my life to date, but I have to admit that I get a thrill, particularly from the designs for the backs of the C$5 and C$10 bills.
Mike Norton said…
Oh, I looked. They're largely not to my tastes, but then again I've not been one for fierce nationalism and revelling in touchstones of a particular culture.

Any scene of people playing hockey will cause my eyes to glaze. I shudder to think of a similar turn down here, with baseball or football players on the back of a bill.

I'm glad they explained the peacekeeper on the back of the $10C note, though, as I would have wondered why they were commemorating bird watchers. In Flanders Field might have been a better touch if they'd found the space for all three verses, instead of just the first, with the French version set below it. Beyond that, much depends upon whether one feels the line-holding action at Ypres was an heroic action or a pointless waste of human life. Tilting it this way and that, of course, it can be seen as both. Too many Old World generals unfamiliar with new technology threw away thousands of lives in a war game played as if it were decades or even centuries earlier.
Anonymous said…
Well, Ypres may well have ended up buying us political credit with the government in the UK that was spent building on the British North America Act towards the Statutes of Westminster, guaranteeing and enhancing our further independence from the UK. So I'm not inclined to consider it a total waste of lives, as bloody a mess as the whole First World War truly was.
Mike Norton said…
History's always open to interpretation -- the current adventures in the Middle East being a topical example -- but that seems a mighty steep price for those people to have paid. Moreover, to have to reach for a justification beyond what any of the combatants knew (ie I doubt any of them thought they were fighting and dying to secure greater independence for Canada from the British Empire) tells me something went dreadfully wrong.
Anonymous said…
I like the new money. I guess the Mint is doing this because Iran has counterfeited billions of dollars in funny money.
Anonymous said…
Iran? Where did you hear of this?
Anonymous said…
Dwight- here's a good start.

The US 20- and 100- dollar bills have been favorite targets for years.
Anonymous said…
In a complete change of topic:

Stacy Keach is doing narrations for Nova now???

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