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Monday, November 13, 2006

Technicolor Money

On a recent trip to the UK I had to get used to British currency. The coins were a problem but not the banknotes since each denomination was a different color. The £10 note was not only a pretty color but it had a picture of a famous scientist.It's hard to imagine an American bill with a picture of Darwin. It's also hard to imagine an American bill that's any color but green. Why is that? Is America the only country that does not have technicolor money?

I asked my American travelling companion about this but he didn't seem to care. In fact, I got the distinct impression that he preferred boring monchrome money.

2 comments :

Anonymous said...

Having just come back from Ecuado, where they've gone over to using US dollars as the currency: OMG those dollar bills are so annoying. Every time I had to pay for something I had to go though the same business of peering at them one at time to see what denomination they were.

Anonymous said...

Not only are our banknotes different colurs, they are different SIZES! The size goes up with the denomination - this is so that blind/partially sighted people can use the.
The rest of Europe now has a similar system.

Probably too sensible for the USA to use, though,
( ahem )