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[solarbird]

I am so sick of this quarter. I'm very much looking forward to it being over. I'm so unmotivated it's just stupid. And I've felt tired and somewhat bletcherous all week. I did kind of enjoy the field trip to the UW botany greenhouses, though. I got to play Sumomo helping my group get to the warehouses, which I mostly only realised I was doing when we got there. So that was funny.


Phalanx

annathepiper brought home some of the new Washington dollars. I desperately want to unwrap them and eat the chocolate I'm convinced is inside. Desperately convinced.

I did not have this reaction to the Sacagawea dollars. Those looked like money. I don't know why this doesn't.

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Comments

[dogemperor.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I am *not* the only one reminded of Hanukkah geld with the new dollars :D

[solarbird]

annathepiper thinks it's the writing on the edges, that it makes them look crinkly, and therefore, unwrappable.

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was going to ask if you got the error coins with the edge In God We Trust missing. I covet those!

Cathy

[annathepiper]

I was specifically looking for those when I got my five at the bank, but sadly, no. ;)

I'll be keeping an eye out for 'em. I suspect that I'll have to do my part to seed the local economy with 'em, 'cause so far, I haven't seen any of these things in the wild!

[annathepiper]

Mmmmmmmmmm tasty George Washington head! He's presidentialicious!

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen an actual coin, but from the pictures George is looking a bit stern, even mean. I like the reverse, though.

I like dollar coins and wish they'd just discontinue the paper dollars. I think they could generate more interest in them if they did something like the state quarters, but instead of rotating the reverse they could change the head on the obverse. The people represented would be prominent Americans who were not politicians, and mostly not known for political activity at all. Artists, musicians, scientists, maybe a civil rights hero or two. If they did this, they'd have to put enough into circulation that collectors wouldn't hoard them all and they'd stay in circulation. This country has a lot to celebrate, and we should put something other than dead presidents on our money. Oh, and to make it more popular among the public, poll Americans on their most admired non-political figures, and release the coins in order of popularity.

[annathepiper]

Yeah, they should just stop making the paper dollars and let the ones still in circulation just be pulled when their effective lifespan is spent. Plus, if they'd make sure that vending machines in general took all the things--Dara says vending machines around here in her experience take the dollar coins fine, but I don't think all of them do--people would be way more likely to use them.

The state quarters thing I've heard referenced as partial inspiration for why they're doing the presidents thing with the coins. And while I think the neatness factor of putting other admired figures on money would be quite high, I don't know if they'd ever do that--are there any countries that put non-leader figures on their money? All the non-U.S. coins I've ever seen do that too.

[solarbird]

I'd support that. I think we should also maybe have $2 coins.

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

I've seen money with non-political figures on it, before, though I don't remember where or who the people were.

[annathepiper]

Heh, cool. Maybe I'll have to look this up. :)

[solarbird]

I had a bunch of money from design class that we studied that was all scientists and artists and musicians. It was all bills; I think it was The Netherlands or Belgium, but I'm not sure.

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

I must say that for a test of "everything," some of the questions were very US-centric. I didn't get that many surprises, but I don't think I'll post my full results. However, I was surprised to be called more extroverted than introverted. I thought I was very introverted, and that many of my answers reflected that.

As for where we *differed*, I was called more logical than emotional, and more traditional than rebel. No big surprise there, though I certainly do burst with emotion at times.

[solarbird]

Oh, it sucked. I was annoyed by many of the questions and, like with most quizzes, found the results kind of laughable. But I took it, and it's going around, so I posted it.

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

I ran into the first one of those coins at work counting deposits yesterday. Thought someone had tried to pass off a Chuck E. Cheese token, to the point where I checked the Treasury website to find out if it was legit or not.

We're conditioned to look for a year, E Pluribus Unum, etc. on the flat sides of coins instead of the edge - and the value is always spelled out, not in of symbols & numbers. The edge lettering isn't consistent, apparently it's 50/50 whether it's right side up or upside down when the coin's face up. And it's too pale, making it look even more like cheaply tinted foil instead of real "gold". At least the Sacajaweas were darker.