"False" Euro Notes
Jan 9th 2005 | 1:39 am
#91
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Re: "False" Euro Notes
Dennis G. Rears <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is great. Why can't the USA do this? I do have one bitch with
> Australia coins. What is up with your 1 and 2 dollar coins? I realize they
> are a different colour, weights, and different metal. Does the $AUD 2 coin
> really need to be that small size? I tipped of lot of $2 coins as if they
> were nickels, and this is in a nontipping country.
Better yet, New Zealand's coins (worth slightly less due to the exchange
rate) are exactly the same sizes as the Australian ones - except that the $1
and $2 are switched! So when you go back and forth you have to retrain
yourself on which is which. The New Zealand arrangement is more logical
(small $1, large $2), I'll give them that.
miguel
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> This is great. Why can't the USA do this? I do have one bitch with
> Australia coins. What is up with your 1 and 2 dollar coins? I realize they
> are a different colour, weights, and different metal. Does the $AUD 2 coin
> really need to be that small size? I tipped of lot of $2 coins as if they
> were nickels, and this is in a nontipping country.
Better yet, New Zealand's coins (worth slightly less due to the exchange
rate) are exactly the same sizes as the Australian ones - except that the $1
and $2 are switched! So when you go back and forth you have to retrain
yourself on which is which. The New Zealand arrangement is more logical
(small $1, large $2), I'll give them that.
miguel
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Hit The Road! Photos from 32 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu
Jan 9th 2005 | 4:10 am
#92
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Re: "False" Euro Notes
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 08:39:34 -0600, [email protected] (Miguel Cruz)
wrote:
>Dennis G. Rears <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This is great. Why can't the USA do this? I do have one bitch with
>> Australia coins. What is up with your 1 and 2 dollar coins? I realize they
>> are a different colour, weights, and different metal. Does the $AUD 2 coin
>> really need to be that small size? I tipped of lot of $2 coins as if they
>> were nickels, and this is in a nontipping country.
>Better yet, New Zealand's coins (worth slightly less due to the exchange
>rate) are exactly the same sizes as the Australian ones - except that the $1
>and $2 are switched! So when you go back and forth you have to retrain
>yourself on which is which. The New Zealand arrangement is more logical
>(small $1, large $2), I'll give them that.
Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
identical to a Dmark?
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Martin
wrote:
>Dennis G. Rears <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This is great. Why can't the USA do this? I do have one bitch with
>> Australia coins. What is up with your 1 and 2 dollar coins? I realize they
>> are a different colour, weights, and different metal. Does the $AUD 2 coin
>> really need to be that small size? I tipped of lot of $2 coins as if they
>> were nickels, and this is in a nontipping country.
>Better yet, New Zealand's coins (worth slightly less due to the exchange
>rate) are exactly the same sizes as the Australian ones - except that the $1
>and $2 are switched! So when you go back and forth you have to retrain
>yourself on which is which. The New Zealand arrangement is more logical
>(small $1, large $2), I'll give them that.
Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
identical to a Dmark?
--
Martin
Jan 9th 2005 | 4:11 am
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Re: "False" Euro Notes
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:22:01 +0100, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
wrote:
>nitram writes:
>> Odd you say that, since there have been many criticism about how hard
>> it is to identify euro coins in your pocket by feel.
>From whom? It took me only about ten minutes to learn to do it.
but by anybody's standards you aren't normal.
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Martin
wrote:
>nitram writes:
>> Odd you say that, since there have been many criticism about how hard
>> it is to identify euro coins in your pocket by feel.
>From whom? It took me only about ten minutes to learn to do it.
but by anybody's standards you aren't normal.
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Martin
Jan 9th 2005 | 4:12 am
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Re: "False" Euro Notes
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 14:22:51 +0100, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
wrote:
>tim writes:
>> It seems easy to me, you run your nail along the edge.
>> Attempting to identify them by size/thickness fails.
>There are several types of differences, and overall they make the coins
>pretty easy to distinguish.
says the alien who claims not to have any money.
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Martin
wrote:
>tim writes:
>> It seems easy to me, you run your nail along the edge.
>> Attempting to identify them by size/thickness fails.
>There are several types of differences, and overall they make the coins
>pretty easy to distinguish.
says the alien who claims not to have any money.
--
Martin
Jan 9th 2005 | 4:46 am
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nitram <[email protected]> wrote:
> Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
> identical to a Dmark?
Germany in 1923?
miguel
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> Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
> identical to a Dmark?
Germany in 1923?
miguel
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Hit The Road! Photos from 32 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu
Jan 9th 2005 | 5:23 am
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Re: "False" Euro Notes
[email protected] (Miguel Cruz) wrote
in news:[email protected]:
> nitram <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
>> identical to a Dmark?
I think he means Mark der DDR.
> Germany in 1923?
The different versions of the Mark and Pfennig through time and space were
not identical. They were different currencies, and even though they all had
a recognizably similar design theme, they were physically distinguishable.
This is true for inflation-era Marks vs. all later versions, and of course
for east vs. west German Marks. Just imagine what you could do today with a
1 trillion Mark banknote from the inflation era if that wasn't so ... :)
Regards
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in news:[email protected]:
> nitram <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
>> identical to a Dmark?
I think he means Mark der DDR.
> Germany in 1923?
The different versions of the Mark and Pfennig through time and space were
not identical. They were different currencies, and even though they all had
a recognizably similar design theme, they were physically distinguishable.
This is true for inflation-era Marks vs. all later versions, and of course
for east vs. west German Marks. Just imagine what you could do today with a
1 trillion Mark banknote from the inflation era if that wasn't so ... :)
Regards
--
Kreuz und quer durch die DDR
mit dem Schienenersatzverkehr
http://www.wschwanke.de/ usenet_20031215 (AT) wschwanke (DOT) de
Jan 9th 2005 | 5:24 am
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Re: $2 bills was: "False" Euro Notes
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:03:09 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hmmmm.... back in the politically incorrect days of the
>1950's, there was an expression "queer as a three dollar
>bill" (referring to homosexuals). SFAIK, the U.S.
>government never issued one (which was why it was "queer").
That expression wasn't used to refer to homosexuals in my experience.
It was used to refer to anything that was a little suspicious. It went
out of use when "queer" came to be understood to mean "homosexual".
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<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hmmmm.... back in the politically incorrect days of the
>1950's, there was an expression "queer as a three dollar
>bill" (referring to homosexuals). SFAIK, the U.S.
>government never issued one (which was why it was "queer").
That expression wasn't used to refer to homosexuals in my experience.
It was used to refer to anything that was a little suspicious. It went
out of use when "queer" came to be understood to mean "homosexual".
--
Barbara Vaughan
My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it
I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup
Jan 9th 2005 | 5:29 am
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Re: signatures was: "False" Euro Notes
"Sjoerd" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I have noticed that in some countries (such as the US) people normally
> just write their name and this is their signature. In other countries
> (such as the Netherlands, where Mr. Duisenberg is from) people
> normally use any "scribble" that they like and can reproduce, and
> that's their signature. It is impossible for instance to reproduce my
> name from my signature, and the same goes for most Dutch people.
I think you can safely assume the same for the rest of Europe.
Regards
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Kreuz und quer durch die DDR
mit dem Schienenersatzverkehr
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news:[email protected]:
> I have noticed that in some countries (such as the US) people normally
> just write their name and this is their signature. In other countries
> (such as the Netherlands, where Mr. Duisenberg is from) people
> normally use any "scribble" that they like and can reproduce, and
> that's their signature. It is impossible for instance to reproduce my
> name from my signature, and the same goes for most Dutch people.
I think you can safely assume the same for the rest of Europe.
Regards
--
Kreuz und quer durch die DDR
mit dem Schienenersatzverkehr
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Jan 9th 2005 | 5:31 am
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Gordon Forbess <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Some signatures are pretty scribbled but, if your name is not evident
> in your signature, how is it different from an illiterate person
> making a mark (on a legal document, for example) which would require a
> witness signature?
The point of a signature is not to be readable, but to be legally binding,
identifiable to the person, and difficult to forge at the same time. The
"individual squiggle" fulfils all three requirements.
Regards
--
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mit dem Schienenersatzverkehr
http://www.wschwanke.de/ usenet_20031215 (AT) wschwanke (DOT) de
news:[email protected]:
> Some signatures are pretty scribbled but, if your name is not evident
> in your signature, how is it different from an illiterate person
> making a mark (on a legal document, for example) which would require a
> witness signature?
The point of a signature is not to be readable, but to be legally binding,
identifiable to the person, and difficult to forge at the same time. The
"individual squiggle" fulfils all three requirements.
Regards
--
Kreuz und quer durch die DDR
mit dem Schienenersatzverkehr
http://www.wschwanke.de/ usenet_20031215 (AT) wschwanke (DOT) de
Jan 9th 2005 | 5:38 am
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Re: $2 bills was: "False" Euro Notes
B Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:03:09 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Hmmmm.... back in the politically incorrect days of the
> >1950's, there was an expression "queer as a three dollar
> >bill" (referring to homosexuals). SFAIK, the U.S.
> >government never issued one (which was why it was "queer").
>
> That expression wasn't used to refer to homosexuals in my experience.
> It was used to refer to anything that was a little suspicious. It went
> out of use when "queer" came to be understood to mean "homosexual".
Well, there's nowt queer as folk, as the saying goes. (Hence the
brilliant UK TV series on Channel 4, so disappointingly adapted by the
US Showtime network)
--
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> On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:03:09 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Hmmmm.... back in the politically incorrect days of the
> >1950's, there was an expression "queer as a three dollar
> >bill" (referring to homosexuals). SFAIK, the U.S.
> >government never issued one (which was why it was "queer").
>
> That expression wasn't used to refer to homosexuals in my experience.
> It was used to refer to anything that was a little suspicious. It went
> out of use when "queer" came to be understood to mean "homosexual".
Well, there's nowt queer as folk, as the saying goes. (Hence the
brilliant UK TV series on Channel 4, so disappointingly adapted by the
US Showtime network)
--
David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
Jan 9th 2005 | 5:40 am
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"Sjoerd" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> We had 25 cents (coin), 25 guilders (banknote) and 250 guilders
> (banknote) as well. So in the Dutch system it made sense to have a 2.5
> guilder coin, a.k.a.rijksdaalder.
> It is only "absurd" because you are not used to any other system than
> 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, ......
>
> When I visited Myanmar in 1987, they had 45 and 90 kyat banknotes.
If the coin designers were more practical thinking, we'd have .98 and .99
cents coins.
Regards
--
Kreuz und quer durch die DDR
mit dem Schienenersatzverkehr
http://www.wschwanke.de/ usenet_20031215 (AT) wschwanke (DOT) de
news:[email protected]:
> We had 25 cents (coin), 25 guilders (banknote) and 250 guilders
> (banknote) as well. So in the Dutch system it made sense to have a 2.5
> guilder coin, a.k.a.rijksdaalder.
> It is only "absurd" because you are not used to any other system than
> 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, ......
>
> When I visited Myanmar in 1987, they had 45 and 90 kyat banknotes.
If the coin designers were more practical thinking, we'd have .98 and .99
cents coins.
Regards
--
Kreuz und quer durch die DDR
mit dem Schienenersatzverkehr
http://www.wschwanke.de/ usenet_20031215 (AT) wschwanke (DOT) de
Jan 9th 2005 | 5:53 am
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Wolfgang Schwanke <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Sjoerd" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > We had 25 cents (coin), 25 guilders (banknote) and 250 guilders
> > (banknote) as well. So in the Dutch system it made sense to have a 2.5
> > guilder coin, a.k.a.rijksdaalder.
> > It is only "absurd" because you are not used to any other system than
> > 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, ......
> >
> > When I visited Myanmar in 1987, they had 45 and 90 kyat banknotes.
>
> If the coin designers were more practical thinking, we'd have .98 and .99
> cents coins.
Not until the businesses started charging 1.97 for stuff!
--
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usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
> "Sjoerd" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > We had 25 cents (coin), 25 guilders (banknote) and 250 guilders
> > (banknote) as well. So in the Dutch system it made sense to have a 2.5
> > guilder coin, a.k.a.rijksdaalder.
> > It is only "absurd" because you are not used to any other system than
> > 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, ......
> >
> > When I visited Myanmar in 1987, they had 45 and 90 kyat banknotes.
>
> If the coin designers were more practical thinking, we'd have .98 and .99
> cents coins.
Not until the businesses started charging 1.97 for stuff!
--
David Horne- www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
Jan 9th 2005 | 8:13 am
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:40:27 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke <[email protected]>
wrote:
>"Sjoerd" <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>> We had 25 cents (coin), 25 guilders (banknote) and 250 guilders
>> (banknote) as well. So in the Dutch system it made sense to have a 2.5
>> guilder coin, a.k.a.rijksdaalder.
>> It is only "absurd" because you are not used to any other system than
>> 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, ......
>>
>> When I visited Myanmar in 1987, they had 45 and 90 kyat banknotes.
>If the coin designers were more practical thinking, we'd have .98 and .99
>cents coins.
LOL good one!
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Martin
wrote:
>"Sjoerd" <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>> We had 25 cents (coin), 25 guilders (banknote) and 250 guilders
>> (banknote) as well. So in the Dutch system it made sense to have a 2.5
>> guilder coin, a.k.a.rijksdaalder.
>> It is only "absurd" because you are not used to any other system than
>> 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, ......
>>
>> When I visited Myanmar in 1987, they had 45 and 90 kyat banknotes.
>If the coin designers were more practical thinking, we'd have .98 and .99
>cents coins.
LOL good one!
--
Martin
Jan 9th 2005 | 8:14 am
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Re: "False" Euro Notes
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:46:42 -0600, [email protected] (Miguel Cruz)
wrote:
>nitram <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
>> identical to a Dmark?
>Germany in 1923?
Munich around 1973 a Turkish(???) coin would work as a Mark in a
cigarette machine.
--
Martin
wrote:
>nitram <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
>> identical to a Dmark?
>Germany in 1923?
Munich around 1973 a Turkish(???) coin would work as a Mark in a
cigarette machine.
--
Martin
Jan 9th 2005 | 9:27 am
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nitram <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:46:42 -0600, [email protected] (Miguel Cruz)
>wrote:
>>nitram <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
>>> identical to a Dmark?
>>Germany in 1923?
>Munich around 1973 a Turkish(???) coin would work as a Mark in a
>cigarette machine.
-------------
And some Yugoslav dinars looked very similar to D-mark coins. I found
that out the hard way once at München Hauptbahnhof .
Kristian
>On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:46:42 -0600, [email protected] (Miguel Cruz)
>wrote:
>>nitram <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Remember when a country had a worthless coin that was physically
>>> identical to a Dmark?
>>Germany in 1923?
>Munich around 1973 a Turkish(???) coin would work as a Mark in a
>cigarette machine.
-------------
And some Yugoslav dinars looked very similar to D-mark coins. I found
that out the hard way once at München Hauptbahnhof .
Kristian
