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10 euro coin (legal tender) for the 10th anniversary of gay marriage in France
Hah, that probably pissed off a lot of people. I love it.
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 bet there are some people out there who refuse to accept these coins as change, lest they catch "The Gay".
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
10 euro coins are pretty common across Europe, but only legal tender in the issuing country.
Let's not forget the ones with the Olympic fursona on them!
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
...do other countries not have just random images on their coins because the government went "fuck it, why not"?
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.
This isn't changing the picture though - this is our new currency, the 'dollarbuck'.
Current exchange rate is 1AUD = 1 Dollarbuck
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.
I predict the AUD/DBK exchange rate to continue to diverge over time. Best to get in early buy DBK now!
As an Australian, Australia doesnt exsist...
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
New Zealand does though, right? Right?
It does. It has Hobbits and Elves. Really cool
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.
Is that really a dollarydoo, or is it like a token for the Australian equivalent of Chucky Cheese?
Australia is just a continent sized 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.
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...
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!
It’s making me nostalgic for Chuck E Cheese.
Every time I see a picture of these I immediately hear the girls saying “Dollarbucks!” In my head.
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.
That painted a funny picture in my mind 🤣
Aussie currency is the best currency for so many reasons.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-colour-of-money-r/
If Bluey had been on the menu instead of Harriet Tubman, I’m sure we’d have gotten it done already.
lol. bluey.
Bluey is Australia's finest export, other than John Robertson.
I just paid a lot for a complete set.
Thanks for letting me know these exist!
Master chief on a $117 bill please.
We do a lot of commemorative stamps instead.
And poor old Hamish and Andy can't get themselves one yet.
Not a Limited Edition. I handled lots of these over the years.
Honestly one of my favs, miss them lil guys