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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 20:49:37 GMT -5
 I was thinking about this the past few days and I watched a return of the Wonder Woman TV Show ... that featured the $2.00 bill and the problems associated with it. Now, with Canada has both $1.00 and $2.00 coins ... do you think it would be practical for United States to print up a new batch of $2.00 bills? ... I think we should it will cut down the numbers of bills in your wallet/purse and makes tipping at your favorite restaurant little more easier. You can vote until the end of March. Choose only ONE option here. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 21:09:25 GMT -5
I go out to dinner on a weekly basis and it would make tips easier to do and cut down the numbers of bills in your wallets and purses that you used in a daily for tipping.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 15, 2019 22:43:08 GMT -5
I chose "Maybe" because, while I don't see any urgent need to bring it back, I'm not opposed to the idea either.
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I go with the flow!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 23:12:48 GMT -5
The only time I use cash is at a comic con. Another denomination isn't necessary, and adding another bill would create so many infrastructure costs it would cost most companies money. How many cash registers have room for another row of bills? How money counting machines at banks would have to be reprogrammed? What percentage of people paying bills still use cash? It is becoming less each year. Paper costs money and has an environmental cost-why incur those additional costs for no real tangible benefits. Fewer bills int he wallet or using fewer bills to pay a tip are barely convenience issues for a small minority or people, but adding costs to every business that uses cash, most financial institutions, and to the federal budget is not a good trade off for that small convenience for a handful of people. The reason they were discontinued is that nobody used them, they were unpopular and most people considered them a hassle not a benefit. How would it be any different or better this time around?
Besides if you want to use them, you still can, and you can request your bank get them for you. They don't need to start making them for those that want to use them to do so.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 15, 2019 23:31:27 GMT -5
They’re still out there. My boys have a passel of them because the county fair gives them out as premiums.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 23:52:21 GMT -5
They’re still out there. My boys have a passel of them because the county fair gives them out as premiums. Interesting ... |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 16, 2019 1:38:34 GMT -5
I still miss the £1 note. Last used here in Britain as legal tender in 1988. **sniff**  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 1:50:12 GMT -5
They’re still out there. My boys have a passel of them because the county fair gives them out as premiums. My wife works at a bank, and they get a large number of requests for them leading up to Christmas, as people use them as "unique monetary gifts. In a bit of synchronicity, I just read an article a few days back about Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters, who is obsessed with $2 bills, something he picked up from Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo and Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, both of whom carry large stacks of $2 bills to pay for almost everything they do. -M |
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Post by berkley on Feb 16, 2019 2:00:30 GMT -5
I think it's one of those things that's hard to predict or imagine, at an individual level. I thought Canada's getting rid of $1 and $2 bills was a pointless move when I heard it on the news back in the 90s (was it?), but now that I've lived with the coins, I don't mind it at all. My only disappointment was that when they brought out the $2 coins a few years after the $1 'loonies' (because of the animal's image imprinted on them) - everybody started calling them 'toonies' (or 'twonies', if you prefer): I thought it was a great opportunity to instead re-introduce the old coinage term of 'doubloons' and even tried to swim against the tide for a few months but soon saw it was a hopeless struggle. What's the smallest bills in the UK now, £5 ? They do have £1 and £2 coins, don't they? (pleased to find my keyboard allows me to use the £ symbol).
[edit:] forgot to ask, what do they have in the States now? - $1 bills and no $2 bills? or have they switched to any coins yet for those lower denominations?
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Post by Confessor on Feb 16, 2019 2:22:08 GMT -5
What's the smallest bills in the UK now, £5 ? They do have £1 and £2 coins, don't they? (pleased to find my keyboard allows me to use the £ symbol). Correct on all counts. |
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Post by berkley on Feb 16, 2019 2:29:26 GMT -5
I still miss the £1 note. Last used here in Britain as legal tender in 1988. **sniff** With each passing year it's becoming more nostalgic to me to see the image of the Queen as a young woman. This looks like it's from around the same time as the picture we had on our school-room wall in the early 70s . |
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Post by berkley on Feb 16, 2019 2:31:31 GMT -5
shoot - missed the 1988 - my memory must be way off. I'll have to see if I can find some actual images online.
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Post by berkley on Feb 16, 2019 2:50:44 GMT -5
Oh wait - I see Confessor meant that the £1 bill was still in use until 1988, not that that particular image was a 1988-isued bill. here's a Canadian $2 from 1987, in which the Queen definitely looks a little older:  Here's an early 70s bill for comparison:  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 8:42:14 GMT -5
[edit:] forgot to ask, what do they have in the States now? - $1 bills and no $2 bills? or have they switched to any coins yet for those lower denominations?
In the states we had a Dollar Coin and that's was unpopular for lots of people here and many of us (except me) do not care for at all.  It's called the Sacagawea Dollar. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 16, 2019 8:53:52 GMT -5
I think it's one of those things that's hard to predict or imagine, at an individual level. I thought Canada's getting rid of $1 and $2 bills was a pointless move when I heard it on the news back in the 90s (was it?), but now that I've lived with the coins, I don't mind it at all. My only disappointment was that when they brought out the $2 coins a few years after the $1 'loonies' (because of the animal's image imprinted on them) - everybody started calling them 'toonies' (or 'twonies', if you prefer): I thought it was a great opportunity to instead re-introduce the old coinage term of 'doubloons' and even tried to swim against the tide for a few months but soon saw it was a hopeless struggle. I love it when old terms make a comeback, and I was all in favour of the European Currency Unit being called an “ecu”, the name of an old French coin. Alas, in German it’s pronounced “eine Kuh”, or “a cow”. And so the bland name “euro” was finally selected.  |
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