Can I request Two Dollar Bills?

[Jesus]

Yep, the BRITISH 50p coin is a heptagon so you can't confuse it with anything, apart from the 20p which is also a heptagon! (albeit a lot smaller.)

As it happens, I was watching CSI Vegas tonight and I swear I saw a one-arm bandit (slot machine?) paying out 2p coins. They were copper colour and it looked like the Prince of Wales emblem on them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar_coin

I first saw these when I went to vegas, never seen them anywhere else.

 

[MalcolmJID]

Problem is that to use the different colors make it look like play money. I imagine the uniformity and blandness is one of the things that makes US money universally accepted.

Not necessarily. English notes have colour in them, but just in the actual artwork/print. The colour of the notes is a dull white, but then £5 have a blue/green tint, £10 have a red/orange/brown tint, £20 have a purple tint, £50 have a red/black theme, and I don't know if any other notes exist!

 

[Tanglewood]

Well the US has color in at least three of their notes
$10

$20

$50

Everything else ($1, $2, $5, $100) is still the green back. Right now the $100 is probably the most likely to be the next in line to get a splash of color. Though as mentioned earlier the US is currently printing three different designs.

Small portrait

Large portrait

and the new colored notes pictured above.

 

[combatcolin]

From the pics above there as good as monocrome!



The Euro is an easy note to deal with, nice big difference's between demoninations.

 

[friarbayliff]

Problem is that to use the different colors make it look like play money. I imagine the uniformity and blandness is one of the things that makes US money universally accepted.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it looks/feels like play money. I personally like the color schemes of certain foreign bills. The color coding scheme of euros makes it that much easier to open my wallet and pull out the right bill without even having to recognize the number or portrait on the bill.

 

[04440]

I like the colors too.. Even though I think they should be working to get rid of change.. Or at least keep quarters and 50 cents in circulation.. So much of Americas money is wasted thrown away... Just hidden change

 

[friarbayliff]

I think I once read that based on the average amount of change needed in any given purchase, the most statistically efficient coin for us to have would be a 17.5 cent piece.

 

[adk]

By the way, can the US please put some colour into their money? I understand it takes away from the significance of the "greenback", but it's so much faster when every bill is a different colour.

The bills do have their value clearly and largely printed in every corner on both sides, is color really that helpful?

I have to say though, Canada's idea of putting the braille on the bills is absolutely brilliant, and I think the US should implement this immediately.

 

[combatcolin]

I think I once read that based on the average amount of change needed in any given purchase, the most statistically efficient coin for us to have would be a 17.5 cent piece.

a 99p coin in the UK could be cool - never happen though.