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.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousTuesday, November 14, 2006 5:49:00 AM

    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.

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  2. AnonymousTuesday, November 14, 2006 8:42:00 AM

    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 )

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