“Here are the main ideas in this design:
Money and the color green are inextricably intertwined in American culture. I think it’d be a mistake to remove green as the primary color. Instead, each bill has a brightly-colored holographic strip embedded into it which contains the denomination. The width of this strip also changes with the denomination. This introduces an element which makes each bill extremely easy to identify. There is also braille denoting the bills’ denomination on the holographic strip”. -- Dollar Redesign by Michael Tyznik @ MONOmodaPosted by Vanderleun at May 1, 2010 10:17 AM
That's great looking money, for a lot of reasons. I just love the idea of Constitutional text right there. Let's hope we don't inflate it into nothingness until the beauty of this idea gets into the right hands.
Posted by: Cobb at May 1, 2010 12:08 PMWhy the Bill of Rights, why not the section of the constitution that authorizes paper money ... [fingers tapping ... crickets].
Posted by: Fat Man at May 1, 2010 1:15 PMlooks too damn you're a peein'.
Posted by: reliapundit at May 1, 2010 1:34 PMWashington on a Fiver says something about upcoming inflation. Guess ones are history.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at May 1, 2010 1:44 PMIt could be worse....we could simply mint dollar coins like Canada does...don't they call their one dollar coin a loonie? Not a real confidence builder.
This should vex you most sorely:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b167/Jauhara/USI-1A-rev.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b167/Jauhara/USI-1A-obv.jpg
Posted by: Jewel at May 1, 2010 2:28 PMHows about making money out of metal where the bigger and heavier the coin the more it's worth?
Hey, I have an idea, we could use gold and silver.
2nd Amendment is a nice touch... as in a finger poked the eye of the socialists.
Posted by: sherlock at May 2, 2010 7:20 AMBilejones, gold and silver also have intrinsic value far lower than their traditional uses would indicate. Money is worth whatever the people using it say it is, whatever it is made out of. And it's just as easy to debase metal money as paper - silver coins, for example, steadily decreased in silver content until they were no longer made of silver at all. In every country.
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