• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    1 month

    Canada could have had this…

    We use pics of asshole PMs and the Queen instead.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      1 month

      I’m on team bird money but its not my call. The humans ones should also have the names for the sake of uneducated outsiders like me.

    • arc99@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 month

      That’s a pretty lame contest. Contestants were told to make notes from an exact list of famous Europeans or birds with some lame architecture on the other side. Can you imagine the excruciating process of finding and sorting either list - “Marie Curie can’t be there because she left a negative comment around the cleanliness of her room at a Belgian conference!”, “Our prime minister died from an allergic reaction to curlews!”

      • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
        1 month

        At least countries can put whatever they want on their own euro coins. These notes just scream designed by a committee of bureaucrats.

          • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1 month

            Yeah! Dont need national symbols on bills. But the coins! Ooh that is where the fun begins! Especially the special edition coins nations make!

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
    1 month

    Cool. 1000 MVR is currently about $65 USD.

    So for $130 plus the cost of framing, you can display both sides of the currency as art in your house.

    • AeronMelon@lemmy.world
      1 month

      €115

      If I have enough money to vacation in the Maldives, this s a reasonable souvenir.

  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1 month

    USA: Best we can do is droopy-eyed, rich, white, rapist, enslaver men with powdered wigs who by todays standards might be the most unfuckable men who ever lived. Also some illuminati symbols to troll the public about our psuedo-secret bank club full of pedophile extortionists.

        • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1 month

          Look at it, though, it has a kangaroo on it and everything, and it’s fucking dodecagonal

          • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
            1 month

            Why, because they tear a giant hole in your pocket with the weight so you know you have no coins in there? ;)

            Japan made all their coins identifiable by touch as well. There’s a small and big one, then for the 4 with similar sizes 2 have milled edges and 2 have holes.

  • 0ops@piefed.zipEnglish
    1 month

    I can’t believe whale sharks are even real

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
      1 month

      weirdly they feel a lot more sensible than actual whales, to me.
      Whale sharks are effectively just an oversized non-bottom-feeding version of those fish you put in an aquarium, it’s not strange for a fish to evolve like that.
      But actual whales? Somehow a creature looking like a boar turned into pseudo-fishes that spend all their time under water while still having to breathe air, and became so ludicrously large that the smallest ones are human-sized. wtf

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    1 month

    For some reason, I really like having the reverse side being in portrait orientation. I wish more notes were designed that way.

    • blackbeans@lemmy.zip
      1 month

      Beats euro bills. But euro bills aren’t bad compared to most. They have color, artwork and growing sizes depending on their value.

      My favorite European bill is the Swiss one though.

      • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 month

        I kinda like the differing sizes as it makes identification easier.

        Personally tho, I wish coinage was more common. Not cents, but whole values as I think they’re easy to carry for small denominations and pay with.

        I hate having to stand at the counter trying to shove bills that crinkle and fold into my wallet while someone waits behind me.

        • Zidane@lemmy.ca
          1 month

          I always shove my change in my pocket and deal with it later.

        • Axolotl@feddit.it
          1 month

          bills that crinkle

          Never had that issue with euro bills tbh but i can see it happen with dollars and all those shitty bills

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1 month

        It’s the Euro coins that are nice, and even that only for those from some countries (one side of Euro coins varies depending on the country that issued them).

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
      1 month

      Yeah ours are a bit dull, intentionally so with their landmarks. They are too big also could do with an all round 15% reduction.

  • 🖖USS-Ethernet@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1 month

    STFU, you’re going to make this a challenge for the orange one to put more of his face everywhere thinking it’s “beautiful”

        • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
          1 month

          That character is from the initially-unaired pilot (“The Cage”), but that shot (and actor) is from “The Menagerie” - a 2-part episode from the first season that re-used scenes from The Cage as flashbacks.

          They had Pike injured and in the wheelchair so they could use makeup and the “beep” communications to disguise the fact that the actor playing him was different in the newly-filmed scenes versus those from the flashbacks.

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1 month

    You could hold up a turd in that picture background and I’d still think it was a good picture

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      1 month

      i think they did tone it back. the first impression on the previous ones was “oh my god that’s so many colors”. the second batch seem to make them toned down to a primary and a secondary color for each. i like them more. typography is ass in both though.

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
      1 month

      I did not realize Switzerland wasn’t on the Euro. Anyway, your money does look cool!