Oh no

Maybe we shouldn't have slave owners on our money? I dunno? Just maybe...

It's just monkeys singing songs, mate. Don't think too hard about it.

Wait wait wait... are you saying you don't have any commemorative coins in the USA?! Holy shit I never realised! We have special coins all the time in Europe. My kids absolutely love when they find a special 2€ coin with some cool engraving on it.
How sad! You could have so many, too! By default each country in the Euro zone has its own heads, while tails are always the same. Easy peasy!

No we do have commemorative $1 coins, Sacagawea had one and they're fairly common change from vending machines. There's an older Susan B Anthony. Harriet Tubman had one but I've never seen it.

There was a set of quarters where the back was related to each state.
- Wikipedia says we're supposed to be running a series honoring inventors from every state but no one wants $1 coins, so...

As an Australian, Australia doesnt exsist...

New Zealand does though, right? Right?
Australia was just a myth, made up to scare the British lower class, but its a joke that got way out of hand and now nobody knows how to stop it

Let's not forget the ones with the Olympic fursona on them!

10 euro coin (legal tender) for the 10th anniversary of gay marriage in France

Sauce

10 euro coins are pretty common across Europe, but only legal tender in the issuing country.
Colour coins? That's cursed.
What the fuck? 10 year anniversary? That hurts
- Zoomer posting?
Hah, that probably pissed off a lot of people. I love it.
- I bet there are some people out there who refuse to accept these coins as change, lest they catch "The Gay".
- You know what pissed a lot of people and felt VERY good? When the girl who sang the French hymn at the Paris Olympics opening was black. Oh boy did it feel right
- I get it (and it makes me happy, too), but would I would like to see is nobody getting pissed off. I know it will never happen in my lifetime, but I wish I could see that coin being as innocuous as Abraham Lincoln on a penny
out of stock

I'm heartbroken

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Not a Limited Edition. I handled lots of these over the years.

Honestly one of my favs, miss them lil guys

It's the US, we put presidents and Founding Fathers on our bills. Harriet Tubman is neither, so of course we're not putting her on the twenty.

Instead we should compromise with historical precedent and put Obama on the twenty - he's both a president and a black historical figure and he'll piss off the people pissed off by the idea of Tubman on the twenty even more. It's a win all around!

Salmon P. Chase was neither a president nor a founding father yet he was on a bill. Though he was qualified in that he served as a white man for, I believe, his whole life.
- He put "in god we trust" on the money.
  
  That's why he's on a bill.
  
  Granted it's the 10k note and there's kind of an inverse relationship with value of note to respect of person.
  
  Which is why Washington is on the 1 dollar note and Hamilton is on the 10.
Anyone on the $20 would be better than Andrew "Trail of Tears" Jackson. The dude also caused the deepest, by percentage not dollar amount, and longest depression in US history by paying off the national debt.
- It wasn't paying off the debt that caused the depression, that's deliberate misinformation to make you think debt is good, take out a lifestyle loan, don't think about it! What's a forever war or two paid paid for on credit, anyways?
  
  What caused the depression was how he paid off the debt, namely by crashing the real estate market selling off stolen native land for cheap.
- Hey, franklin pierce also sucked pretty hard. He didnt actually do anything, which is the problem. His lack of action dropped us right into the civil war iirc
- I’ll get flamed for this but even trump would be better than Jackson.
  
  The only one who I can think of that’d be as bad is Bush Jr.
She was a General in the Civil War, she's qualified.
- New rule, if you haven't navigated a minefield, you can't be on the money.
That's not a rule. It's just what's been done before. There is no rule that we can't have Harriet Tubman on a bill. The universe will not end if we tell the traditionalists they are welcome to get in a time machine if they want to live in the past.
I appreciate the note about putting Obama on the bill, but the first sentence is incorrect. 😅

The $10 (Alexander Hamilton) and $100 (Ben Franklin) do not feature presidents.

Edit: welp if you Lemmy at 5 a.m then you might not be able to read well
- founding fathers?
- Boy, reading comprehension is hard huh buddy? There's like 4 whole sentences there! I'm sure you'll get em next time.

We also have a Vegemite on toast coin

Are these put into circulation or just purely collectors items?
- They are legal tender but rare so their price in 10 years can be anyone's guess, maybe around $100.

Is that really a dollarydoo, or is it like a token for the Australian equivalent of Chucky Cheese?

That's a real dollar coin that could be used in circulation, but it costs much more than its face value to buy and it's worth a lot more than its face value to collectors.
- Yeah, that's pretty much how the dollar coins here in the US are, too. Seeing one is like a special treat because people end up buying them from the mint and hoarding them.
Australia is just a continent sized chucky cheese
- You ain't kidding

I don’t know if this is real, but I want it to be.

It is. There was a massive heist of them too, so hopefully this one was legitimately acquired.
https://australiapostcollectables.com.au/collecting-month/bluey-collectables-2024

The dollar bucks are real!
- *Bluey bucks
It’s making me nostalgic for Chuck E Cheese.

The US doesn't feature Harriet Tubman on the $20 because it's full up with racist, slavery-denying fools who still have the mindset of an Andrew Jackson voter and would vote a wheel of racist cheese into the office of president over an eminently qualified black woman any day of any week.

Ironically, Andrew Jackson was reviled at the time. Most Americans were shocked that he got elected, and I'm unsure if he or Woodrow Wilson did more damage to the country.
- Hoover, (Depression Austerity),and Truman, (Sent first troops to Vietnam), are up there too.

...do other countries not have just random images on their coins because the government went "fuck it, why not"?

Niue Island has done some cool stuff
- Nintendo lawyers are frothing at the mouth.
Austrailia doesn't either. This was a collectible coin. Their normal dollar coil is a few kangaroos on one side and Queen Elizebeth II (now it's King Charles) on the other.
- Yeah, but all collectable coins can be used as regular coins if need be
In the Netherlands we have the current monarch, so it changes every 30 years or so. And sometimes we have a special occasion image, but I can't remember if we've had one of these since we got the Euro as our currency.
- The Royal Dutch Mint sells commemorative Euro coins that are legal tender. Like this 750 years of Amsterdam 5 euro coin
  
  Or this coast guard coin
  
  Though these aren’t put into general circulation.
- Here is the List when each country released special coins and here you can lookup how the coins looked per year.
  
  Netherlands has released 9 special coins.

I'm mad. I didn't know about this until now. How could they make this limited edition?

You are going to be even more mad to learn that they were basically impossible to get for a while cos someone stole a bunch of them
- As a father with a toddler... Totally a justified theft.
My son just called BS on the picture. Is there a reliable place to fact check this?

I'm not googling today, I'm pissed with my life. Yep I'll be fine tomorrow, just now I'm not, thx for caring, moving on.
- It's just a limited edition coin we make a bunch of different ones, but in low quantities
- It's real. You could get them from the Australian Post.
  
  I'm not googling today, I'm pissed with my life. Yep I'll be fine tomorrow, just now I'm not, thx for caring, moving on.
  
  Hope you feel better, dude! No idea what's making you feel bad, but life is pretty shitty right now, it's understandable to feel like garbage.
I just got a set on eBay for ~15 usd

This isn't changing the picture though - this is our new currency, the 'dollarbuck'.
Current exchange rate is 1AUD = 1 Dollarbuck

I predict the AUD/DBK exchange rate to continue to diverge over time. Best to get in early buy DBK now!
Shoulda gone with Dollarydoo.
- "Dollarbuck" is from the show, though.
The fact they added the little "buck" is what really makes this 😂
Most stable currency ever.
- Backed by the full faith and credit of Bandit & Chilli's enduring love for their daughters.