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Why do the Americans have such an attachment to the dollar bill?
The English lost the pound note in 1984, and at current exchange rates one dollar is worth 57p. Our smallest note is worth almost 10 times that. Also, the Americans only have four different coins, the British have eight. Why is this? Are the Americans not as adept at handling cash? The largest American coin is a quarter, worth a measly 14 pence. The British two pound coin is worth fourteen times that. Apparently there do exist such things as dollar and half-dollar coins, but people just don't use them. It's incredibly frustrating when your wallet is full of notes, so you assume you have a lot of cash, but they all turn out to be one dollar bills. And why do they not name their coins by their worth? What's all this dime and nickel business? Is it all just a trick to confuse tourists?
posted by Claire @ 9:52 pm
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Is `Crazed Anonymous' an anagram of `Ramzy Daou's nonce?
I think it's kind of cool that you can use the dollar bills in drinks machines, where we in the UK would need coins.
Then you are using up your small notes and supporting Coca-Cola at the same time.
Just got back from Turkey, where I was very disappointed to discover that they have knocked five zeroes off their currency. I was looking forward to taking out one million lira from the ATM.
Same colour and size too...
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