On 10/22/2012 06:48 AM, Nemo Maelstrom Thorx wrote:
> On 10 Oct (a Wednesday in 2012) around 1013 hours, John Coxon did utter:
>> On 09/10/2012 22:20, Sn!pe wrote:
>> <snip the zarking fardwark>
>> Can we get a coin into a piggy bank over here?
> Amongst my coins for today are a 1980 Australian 10¢ piece.
> *clink*
> .../Nemo
I click the like button with a 1982 D cent.
-- Tian
http://tian.greens.org Latest change: U.S. national debt is now above sixteen trillion dollars.
The Green pin I got from a Kiwi in Baltimore's on a Colorado quarter.
On 22 Oct (a Monday in 2012) around 2221 hours, tian did utter:
> >>Can we get a coin into a piggy bank over here?
> >Amongst my coins for today are a 1980 Australian 10¢ piece.
> >*clink*
> I click the like button with a 1982 D cent.
I had a mild obsession with moneyboxes as a kid - the adult echo of
which is that I have several plastic containers (formerly 1l bottled
fruit) for coins, set per denomination. I filled two of them with 20c
coins, and one with 50c coins... but the 10c is still going... almost
full!
On 10/22/2012 10:27 PM, Nemo Maelstrom Thorx wrote:
> On 22 Oct (a Monday in 2012) around 2221 hours, tian did utter:
>>>> Can we get a coin into a piggy bank over here?
>>> Amongst my coins for today are a 1980 Australian 10 piece.
>>> *clink*
>> I click the like button with a 1982 D cent.
> I had a mild obsession with moneyboxes as a kid - the adult echo of
> which is that I have several plastic containers (formerly 1l bottled
> fruit) for coins, set per denomination. I filled two of them with 20c
> coins, and one with 50c coins... but the 10c is still going... almost
> full!
Fascinating. We don't have 20c coins here. The 50c coin exists but not
many people use it. Many years ago I would put the change that was in
my pocket when I got home in a peanut butter jar. The jar was full when
I went through a period of unemployment. One of the things I found out
was that retailers rebel when you try and use lots of small change to
buy anything. Since then I've carried a coin purse and recycled change
as fast as it came in. That means no emergency stash, but oh well...
-- Tian
http://tian.greens.org Latest change: U.S. national debt is now above sixteen trillion dollars.
The Kiwi Green pin I got in Baltimore is now on a South Dakota quarter.
On 24 Oct (a Wednesday in 2012) around 1258 hours, tian did utter:
> >I had a mild obsession with moneyboxes as a kid - the adult echo of
> >which is that I have several plastic containers (formerly 1l bottled
> >fruit) for coins, set per denomination. I filled two of them with 20c
> >coins, and one with 50c coins... but the 10c is still going... almost
> >full!
> Fascinating. We don't have 20c coins here. The 50c coin exists but not
> many people use it.
Our currency is fractal - ie, the denominations are always 1,2,5,
regardless if you're talking in cents, tens of cents, hundreds of cents,
thousands of cents... 10,000 cents ($100) is the current max. The only
places that currently down is that we got rid of 1 and 2c coins many years
ago.
My theory as to the relative non-use of the US 50c coin is that it's
simply not the most space-efficient way to carry 50 cents... it's nicer
to carry two quarters. Here, a 50c coin is preferable to two 20c and one
10c, (or any other variant which sums to 50c). for the record, AU 50c
coins are big (one of the largest coins in circulation in the world)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_fifty-cent_coin ...in fact, by and large, all Australian coins are large compared to
their US counterparts
> Many years ago I would put the change that was in
> my pocket when I got home in a peanut butter jar. The jar was full when
> I went through a period of unemployment. One of the things I found out
> was that retailers rebel when you try and use lots of small change to
> buy anything. Since then I've carried a coin purse and recycled change
> as fast as it came in. That means no emergency stash, but oh well...
Gold coins ($1 and $2) stay in my coin purse. Silver shrapnel
(5,10,20,50) all go into moneyboxes at home. At one point I had a jar of
20c in the freezer - it was "cold hard cash". When I added a second jar,
that was "frozen assets". By the time I got to a third jar, I decided to
abandon that... :)
>On 10/22/2012 10:27 PM, Nemo Maelstrom Thorx wrote:
>> On 22 Oct (a Monday in 2012) around 2221 hours, tian did utter:
>>>>> Can we get a coin into a piggy bank over here?
>>>> Amongst my coins for today are a 1980 Australian 10 piece.
>>>> *clink*
>>> I click the like button with a 1982 D cent.
>> I had a mild obsession with moneyboxes as a kid - the adult echo of
>> which is that I have several plastic containers (formerly 1l bottled
>> fruit) for coins, set per denomination. I filled two of them with 20c
>> coins, and one with 50c coins... but the 10c is still going... almost
>> full!
>Fascinating. We don't have 20c coins here. The 50c coin exists but not
>many people use it.
Here in the UK we have: 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, 1 and 2 coins.
I distribute them as so:
- 1p and 2p into a jar in my bedsi
- 5p into a charity box we keep that my wife is supposed to empty
every now and then and pass the contents to the RNIB - Sets of 20p/50p pairings (i.e. I can match a fifty pence coin with
a twenty pence coin) go into another jar specially for raiding when
I'm going to play pool (the pool table takes a 20p and a 50p per
game).
- 10p, 20p, 50p and 1 coins get put into a coin purse of "coins that
fit the carpark ticket machine" (excepting when I have pairs of 20p
and 50p coins, see above).
- 2 coins stay in my wallet.
Lloyd
-- "In fact, everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade'
appears to be missing" -- Svlad Cjelli
> On 24 Oct (a Wednesday in 2012) around 1258 hours, tian did utter:
>>> I had a mild obsession with moneyboxes as a kid - the adult echo of
>>> which is that I have several plastic containers (formerly 1l bottled
>>> fruit) for coins, set per denomination. I filled two of them with 20c
>>> coins, and one with 50c coins... but the 10c is still going... almost
>>> full!
>> Fascinating. We don't have 20c coins here. The 50c coin exists but not
>> many people use it.
> Our currency is fractal - ie, the denominations are always 1,2,5,
> regardless if you're talking in cents, tens of cents, hundreds of cents,
> thousands of cents... 10,000 cents ($100) is the current max. The only
> places that currently down is that we got rid of 1 and 2c coins many years
> ago.
> My theory as to the relative non-use of the US 50c coin is that it's
> simply not the most space-efficient way to carry 50 cents... it's nicer
> to carry two quarters. Here, a 50c coin is preferable to two 20c and one
> 10c, (or any other variant which sums to 50c). for the record, AU 50c
> coins are big (one of the largest coins in circulation in the world)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_fifty-cent_coin > ...in fact, by and large, all Australian coins are large compared to
> their US counterparts
Fascinating! Among the backs for the coin listed on that page I found:
2000: Millennium Year.
2000: Royal Visit.
2001: Centenary of Federation of Australia: nine coins for the six states plus the Northern Territory, Norfolk Island and the Australian Capital Territory [3]
It took us more than a decade to go through putting out coins for each
state and territory. You guys did all that and more in ONE YEAR? Wow.
Also there is the thought that I didn't realize your country was only 100 years old.
>> Many years ago I would put the change that was in
>> my pocket when I got home in a peanut butter jar. The jar was full when
>> I went through a period of unemployment. One of the things I found out
>> was that retailers rebel when you try and use lots of small change to
>> buy anything. Since then I've carried a coin purse and recycled change
>> as fast as it came in. That means no emergency stash, but oh well...
> Gold coins ($1 and $2) stay in my coin purse. Silver shrapnel
> (5,10,20,50) all go into moneyboxes at home. At one point I had a jar of
> 20c in the freezer - it was "cold hard cash". When I added a second jar,
> that was "frozen assets". By the time I got to a third jar, I decided to
> abandon that... :)
I'm remembering being told about freezing his credit cards by an artist
who wanted to heal his credit rating. It worked. Putting them in a block
of ice in the freezer kept him from using them.
-- Tian
http://tian.greens.org Latest change: U.S. national debt is now above sixteen trillion dollars.
The Kiwi Green pin I got in Baltimore is now on a South Dakota quarter.
> Here in the UK we have: 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2 coins.
The people of the US still rebel against the $1 coin. I think people who
have travelled to other countries and used "dollar coin equivalents" get
it. It doesn't help that Canadian 1 and 2 dollar coins are referred to as
"loonies" and "twoonies", endearingly by Canadians and mockingly by
Americans.
Den 27-10-2012 15:57, Professor Urban Chronotis skrev:
> Lloyd Gilbert
>> Here in the UK we have: 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2 coins.
> The people of the US still rebel against the $1 coin. I think people who
> have travelled to other countries and used "dollar coin equivalents" get
> it. It doesn't help that Canadian 1 and 2 dollar coins are referred to as
> "loonies" and "twoonies", endearingly by Canadians and mockingly by
> Americans.
I live in a country without dollars and I have absolutely no system for my change. Except I have a wallet for foreign (danish) cash and one for local (norwegian) cash. Thus it makes no sense I have punds in my "local currency wallet".
Also, Norway abandoned the "50øre" coin (roughly ~10 US cents) this year, thus making krone the only currency payable in cash. Fractions must be rounded off. Øre still exist in banks and on price tags...
-- Rasmus Bøg Hansen
I'm selling these fine leather jackets.
Expect the unexpected!
