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I understand the romanticism of coins and the nostalgia of coin collectors, but the experience of actually using them is just so much worse than bills. When I g
by kibwen 2y ago
I understand the romanticism of coins and the nostalgia of coin collectors, but the experience of actually using them is just so much worse than bills. When I go to Canada I immediately relinquish my loonies and toonies to my Canadian friends because they're such a pain to deal with.
- bastawhiz 2y agoA bill could never replicate the gratifying "plunk" of putting a dinner plate sized 10kg coin worth $5000 into the Carvana vending machine
- konfusinomicon 2y agothe coin purse market in such a world would be a sight to behold
- eddd-ddde 2y agoWealthy people would hire someone whose only job is to carry a wheelbarrow full of change.
- indigovole 2y agolet alone the satisfaction of plunking in 10 of them, one after another, muscling them up from my Weimar®-brand currency wheelbarrow.
- Symbiote 2y agoA well-designed set of coins is nice to use, but this is unfortunately rare. Canada and the USA certainly don't have it. The Euro doesn't, which is odd as the currency is so new -- why are the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins so similar? The Pound Sterling is generally well-designed, with sets of coins in copper-silver-gold materials, and easily distinguishable sequences of shapes and different sizes. The Danish and Swedish coins also work, in the Danish case with a hole to distinguish some denominations.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2y agoI found Danish and Swedish coins to be just as annoying as American coins. They are difficult to tell apart immediately. The Pound and its denominations, I agree, are the best I've encountered so far in real world use. I wish America would get off its butt about getting rid of the penny. It's such a waste of resources. We don't need it. In fact, Ecuador uses USD as well and they, a country with much lower GDP and prices, don't use our penny. They round up.
- throwaway2037 2y ago> just as annoying as American coins. They are difficult to tell apart immediately. Which American coins are difficult to tell apart immediately? Penny (1c) is a different color (copper). Nickel (5c) is fat. Dime (10c) is small. Quarter (25c) is large. Are dollar coins (Susan B. Anthonys) used heavily now? I agree about the penny. I am pretty sure that Australia no longer has a penny, and rounds up everything to the nearest 5c. (Can any Aussies confirm?)
- culopatin 2y agoOnly a certain subset of people would think that universally, a coin that looks bigger would be half the value of the smaller one. In Argentina back when coins were worth anything, from 1c to 50c they would grow in size, also would have the value in big clear numbers, and varying colors. The 1 peso coin would be a big smaller in diameter but substantially heavier and different with two colors. Coins in the US from this “obviously the smallest one is the least valuable” mindset didn’t make sense. Also seems like no one cares about any coin but the quarter for anything other than trading them. Any coin operated machine I’ve seen takes 25c
- Iulioh 2y ago>why are the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins so similar? ...have you ever used the coins? All different sizes and the border of 10 and 50 are similar but the 50 is x2 the size and the 20 is totally different I don't think anyone would say they are similar