We do a lot of commemorative stamps instead.
Not a Limited Edition. I handled lots of these over the years.
Honestly one of my favs, miss them lil guys
Colour coins? That’s cursed.
Hah, that probably pissed off a lot of people. I love it.
You know what pissed a lot of people and felt VERY good? When the girl who sang the French hymn at the Paris Olympics opening was black. Oh boy did it feel right
I bet there are some people out there who refuse to accept these coins as change, lest they catch “The Gay”.
I get it (and it makes me happy, too), but would I would like to see is nobody getting pissed off. I know it will never happen in my lifetime, but I wish I could see that coin being as innocuous as Abraham Lincoln on a penny
That wildly political figure? For real though, with all the confederate flags I’m surprised it isn’t more controversial
They probably just know saying “Ew, I dont want no tyrant Lincoln on my money” looks really bad even now
What the fuck? 10 year anniversary? That hurts
out of stock
I’m heartbroken
10 euro coins are pretty common across Europe, but only legal tender in the issuing country.
Let’s not forget the ones with the Olympic fursona on them!
We also have a Vegemite on toast coin
Are these put into circulation or just purely collectors items?
They are legal tender but rare so their price in 10 years can be anyone’s guess, maybe around $100.
I meant is it like the Sacagawea coins in the US or more like the mint runs they do?
Sacagawea dollar coin was put into general circulation, and could be obtained at any US bank. But everyone thought they were cool, so people would almost never spend them. While a mint run costs more than the face dollar value of the coin.
It’s unfortunate too because coins last way longer than bills, but they have never been successful at getting people to spend them in the US.
I would love to see 1, 2 and $5 coins being used… but probably will never happen here.
Limited mint runs. They weren’t introducing new denominations, just reskins.
It’s the US, we put presidents and Founding Fathers on our bills. Harriet Tubman is neither, so of course we’re not putting her on the twenty.
Instead we should compromise with historical precedent and put Obama on the twenty - he’s both a president and a black historical figure and he’ll piss off the people pissed off by the idea of Tubman on the twenty even more. It’s a win all around!
Anyone on the $20 would be better than Andrew “Trail of Tears” Jackson. The dude also caused the deepest, by percentage not dollar amount, and longest depression in US history by paying off the national debt.
Hey, franklin pierce also sucked pretty hard. He didnt actually do anything, which is the problem. His lack of action dropped us right into the civil war iirc
Ehh he did try to prevent it, it’s just that he did everything wrong. It’s Buchanan that didn’t do shit and fucked the country.
Buchanan was a slavery sympathizer who thought the secession was legal. There was a long historical debate leading up to the civil war on if a state could secede since states have to ratify the US constitution and so could possibly deratify and go their own way.
I’ll get flamed for this but even trump would be better than Jackson.
The only one who I can think of that’d be as bad is Bush Jr.
Give him time, he’s already promised to do a genocide.
I’m just counting the first term. Second term will definitely take the cake
Jackson didn’t commit treason though. But he needs to be replaced. Harding would be a better choice.
They should put FDR on it to trigger the cons
Oh boy yes please
Salmon P. Chase was neither a president nor a founding father yet he was on a bill. Though he was qualified in that he served as a white man for, I believe, his whole life.
He put “in god we trust” on the money.
That’s why he’s on a bill.
Granted it’s the 10k note and there’s kind of an inverse relationship with value of note to respect of person.
Which is why Washington is on the 1 dollar note and Hamilton is on the 10.
Thats not even a good thing though. And why not put other historical figures on money? Would it be so objectionable to out MLK Jr or General Sherman on money?
They only reason Tubmam isn’t on the $10 bill right now is because of the musical changing the fact no one gave a shit about Alexander Hamilton and didn’t care he was or wasn’t on money to him suddenly being a massively well known founding father with several massive showtunes explaining his life.
The plan was seriously already in place and nearly happened before the musical.
Huh. Til. Tbf, of all the founders, Hamilton probably deserves to be on money more than most of them
That’s not a rule. It’s just what’s been done before. There is no rule that we can’t have Harriet Tubman on a bill. The universe will not end if we tell the traditionalists they are welcome to get in a time machine if they want to live in the past.
I appreciate the note about putting Obama on the bill, but the first sentence is incorrect. 😅
The $10 (Alexander Hamilton) and $100 (Ben Franklin) do not feature presidents.
Edit: welp if you Lemmy at 5 a.m then you might not be able to read well
founding fathers?
Ah I’m dumb. My mind turned off after “presidents”
I did the same and was going to comment the same, but fortunately realized my mistake, then kept reading to see you make the same one haha. What a ride.
Boy, reading comprehension is hard huh buddy? There’s like 4 whole sentences there! I’m sure you’ll get em next time.
Man my guy just missed a part of a sentence, no need to go full asshole over it.
She was a General in the Civil War, she’s qualified.
New rule, if you haven’t navigated a minefield, you can’t be on the money.
No, if you’ve never completed Minesweeper on expert, can’t be on the money.
…do other countries not have just random images on their coins because the government went “fuck it, why not”?
Austrailia doesn’t either. This was a collectible coin. Their normal dollar coil is a few kangaroos on one side and Queen Elizebeth II (now it’s King Charles) on the other.
Yeah, but all collectable coins can be used as regular coins if need be
I dunno if that’s true.
It’s true. There’s a lot of special issues that fin their way into circulation.
In the Netherlands we have the current monarch, so it changes every 30 years or so. And sometimes we have a special occasion image, but I can’t remember if we’ve had one of these since we got the Euro as our currency.
The Royal Dutch Mint sells commemorative Euro coins that are legal tender. Like this 750 years of Amsterdam 5 euro coin
Or this coast guard coin
Though these aren’t put into general circulation.
This I didn’t know. All I knew were this one or this one (also in other denominations), which could be found in general circulation.
Here is the List when each country released special coins and here you can lookup how the coins looked per year.
Netherlands has released 9 special coins.
As an Australian, Australia doesnt exsist…
Australia was just a myth, made up to scare the British lower class, but its a joke that got way out of hand and now nobody knows how to stop it
New Zealand does though, right? Right?
It does. It has Hobbits and Elves. Really cool
This isn’t changing the picture though - this is our new currency, the ‘dollarbuck’.
Current exchange rate is 1AUD = 1 DollarbuckShoulda gone with Dollarydoo.
“Dollarbuck” is from the show, though.
Dollarydoo is from a 1995 Simpsons episode
I’m aware. “Dollarbuck” is from Bluey, which is the image featured on the coin in the photograph.
The fact they added the little “buck” is what really makes this 😂
Most stable currency ever.
Backed by the full faith and credit of Bandit & Chilli’s enduring love for their daughters.
The US doesn’t feature Harriet Tubman on the $20 because it’s full up with racist, slavery-denying fools who still have the mindset of an Andrew Jackson voter and would vote a wheel of racist cheese into the office of president over an eminently qualified black woman any day of any week.
Ironically, Andrew Jackson was reviled at the time. Most Americans were shocked that he got elected, and I’m unsure if he or Woodrow Wilson did more damage to the country.
Hoover, (Depression Austerity),and Truman, (Sent first troops to Vietnam), are up there too.
I would put Nuking Hiroshima and Nagisaki on the list of Truman issues as well.
At the very least Nagisaki. One could argue that the first bomb was necessary after we saw how hard the Japanese fought on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Japan had already surrendered after Hiroshima, and the only condition they asked was that The Emperor not have to step down. I hindsight I don’t think that would have been an issue as he apparently wasn’t the driving force behind the war.
For the world and Japan certainly. But as things that affected Americans, those advisors were far worse.
Every time I see a picture of these I immediately hear the girls saying “Dollarbucks!” In my head.
I don’t know if this is real, but I want it to be.
https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/collecting-month/bluey-collectables-2024
The dollar bucks are real!
*Bluey bucks
It is. There was a massive heist of them too, so hopefully this one was legitimately acquired.
It’s making me nostalgic for Chuck E Cheese.
Wait wait wait… are you saying you don’t have any commemorative coins in the USA?! Holy shit I never realised! We have special coins all the time in Europe. My kids absolutely love when they find a special 2€ coin with some cool engraving on it.
How sad! You could have so many, too! By default each country in the Euro zone has its own heads, while tails are always the same. Easy peasy!No we do have commemorative $1 coins, Sacagawea had one and they’re fairly common change from vending machines. There’s an older Susan B Anthony. Harriet Tubman had one but I’ve never seen it.
There was a set of quarters where the back was related to each state.
Maybe we shouldn’t have slave owners on our money? I dunno? Just maybe…
It’s just monkeys singing songs, mate. Don’t think too hard about it.
If Bluey had been on the menu instead of Harriet Tubman, I’m sure we’d have gotten it done already.
