I don’t know if this is real, but I want it to be.
Let’s not forget the ones with the Olympic fursona on them!
What the fuck? 10 year anniversary? That hurts
Colour coins? That’s cursed.
Hah, that probably pissed off a lot of people. I love it.
You know what pissed a lot of people and felt VERY good? When the girl who sang the French hymn at the Paris Olympics opening was black. Oh boy did it feel right
out of stock
I’m heartbroken
And poor old Hamish and Andy can’t get themselves one yet.
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!
Anyone on the $20 would be better than Andrew “Trail of Tears” Jackson. The dude also caused the deepest, by percentage not dollar amount, and longest depression in US history by paying off the national debt.
Hey, franklin pierce also sucked pretty hard. He didnt actually do anything, which is the problem. His lack of action dropped us right into the civil war iirc
I’ll get flamed for this but even trump would be better than Jackson.
The only one who I can think of that’d be as bad is Bush Jr.
That’s not a rule. It’s just what’s been done before. There is no rule that we can’t have Harriet Tubman on a bill. The universe will not end if we tell the traditionalists they are welcome to get in a time machine if they want to live in the past.
I appreciate the note about putting Obama on the bill, but the first sentence is incorrect. 😅
The $10 (Alexander Hamilton) and $100 (Ben Franklin) do not feature presidents.
Edit: welp if you Lemmy at 5 a.m then you might not be able to read well
founding fathers?
Ah I’m dumb. My mind turned off after “presidents”
I did the same and was going to comment the same, but fortunately realized my mistake, then kept reading to see you make the same one haha. What a ride.
Boy, reading comprehension is hard huh buddy? There’s like 4 whole sentences there! I’m sure you’ll get em next time.
Man my guy just missed a part of a sentence, no need to go full asshole over it.
The US doesn’t feature Harriet Tubman on the $20 because it’s full up with racist, slavery-denying fools who still have the mindset of an Andrew Jackson voter and would vote a wheel of racist cheese into the office of president over an eminently qualified black woman any day of any week.
Ironically, Andrew Jackson was reviled at the time. Most Americans were shocked that he got elected, and I’m unsure if he or Woodrow Wilson did more damage to the country.
Hoover, (Depression Austerity),and Truman, (Sent first troops to Vietnam), are up there too.
I would put Nuking Hiroshima and Nagisaki on the list of Truman issues as well.
At the very least Nagisaki. One could argue that the first bomb was necessary after we saw how hard the Japanese fought on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Japan had already surrendered after Hiroshima, and the only condition they asked was that The Emperor not have to step down. I hindsight I don’t think that would have been an issue as he apparently wasn’t the driving force behind the war.
For the world and Japan certainly. But as things that affected Americans, those advisors were far worse.
lol. bluey.
Not a Limited Edition. I handled lots of these over the years.
Honestly one of my favs, miss them lil guys
We also have a Vegemite on toast coin
Are these put into circulation or just purely collectors items?
They are legal tender but rare so their price in 10 years can be anyone’s guess, maybe around $100.
I meant is it like the Sacagawea coins in the US or more like the mint runs they do?
Sacagawea dollar coin was put into general circulation, and could be obtained at any US bank. But everyone thought they were cool, so people would almost never spend them. While a mint run costs more than the face dollar value of the coin.
It’s unfortunate too because coins last way longer than bills, but they have never been successful at getting people to spend them in the US.
I would love to see 1, 2 and $5 coins being used… but probably will never happen here.
Limited mint runs. They weren’t introducing new denominations, just reskins.
Aussie currency is the best currency for so many reasons.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-colour-of-money-r/
Master chief on a $117 bill please.
I just paid a lot for a complete set.
Thanks for letting me know these exist!
…do other countries not have just random images on their coins because the government went “fuck it, why not”?
Austrailia doesn’t either. This was a collectible coin. Their normal dollar coil is a few kangaroos on one side and Queen Elizebeth II (now it’s King Charles) on the other.
In the Netherlands we have the current monarch, so it changes every 30 years or so. And sometimes we have a special occasion image, but I can’t remember if we’ve had one of these since we got the Euro as our currency.
The Royal Dutch Mint sells commemorative Euro coins that are legal tender. Like this 750 years of Amsterdam 5 euro coin
Or this coast guard coin
Though these aren’t put into general circulation.
This I didn’t know. All I knew were this one or this one (also in other denominations), which could be found in general circulation.
Here is the List when each country released special coins and here you can lookup how the coins looked per year.
Netherlands has released 9 special coins.
I’m mad. I didn’t know about this until now. How could they make this limited edition?
You are going to be even more mad to learn that they were basically impossible to get for a while cos someone stole a bunch of them
As a father with a toddler… Totally a justified theft.
I just got a set on eBay for ~15 usd
My son just called BS on the picture. Is there a reliable place to fact check this?
I’m not googling today, I’m pissed with my life. Yep I’ll be fine tomorrow, just now I’m not, thx for caring, moving on.
It’s just a limited edition coin we make a bunch of different ones, but in low quantities
Doesn’t this cause a lot of confusion on whether it’s counterfeit money or not?
Canada does the same and AFAIK it’s never really been an issue
Canada has used dozens or even hundreds of impression on their coins. Coloured features, holograms, bimetalic, scratch and snuff, just anything.
Yeah we do so many variations it’s almost more rare to see a non special edition coin lol
The US also makes tons of limited edition collectible quarters and dollar coins. Buying them costs way more than face value so they never end up in circulation. Not even sure if they actually are legal tender.
It’s real. You could get them from the Australian Post.
I’m not googling today, I’m pissed with my life. Yep I’ll be fine tomorrow, just now I’m not, thx for caring, moving on.
Hope you feel better, dude! No idea what’s making you feel bad, but life is pretty shitty right now, it’s understandable to feel like garbage.
This isn’t changing the picture though - this is our new currency, the ‘dollarbuck’.
Current exchange rate is 1AUD = 1 DollarbuckShoulda gone with Dollarydoo.
“Dollarbuck” is from the show, though.
Dollarydoo is from a 1995 Simpsons episode
I’m aware. “Dollarbuck” is from Bluey, which is the image featured on the coin in the photograph.
The fact they added the little “buck” is what really makes this 😂
Most stable currency ever.
Backed by the full faith and credit of Bandit & Chilli’s enduring love for their daughters.
