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Author Topic: The new nickel Nate Lehrke Master Film Handler Posts: 396 From: Denver, CO Registered: Oct 2002 posted 03-05-2004 04:13 AM                     What’s wrong with the old nickel? Does this new nickel work the same or does it have some new powers? Why are they designing these new coins? Why are we spending tax money on design & advertising for the new coins? I can understand making new bills every so often because of counterfeiting but I just don’t see people counterfeiting nickels & quarters, and if they are they are just bad entrepreneurs! What’s the logic behind these news coins?  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-05-2004 09:23 AM                     Yeh, what Nate said! Why do they fuck with the money? It ain't broke so don't fix it.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-05-2004 09:35 AM                        My personal favorite fiasco was the fact tha the US Treasury Department felt the need to spend $32 million to promote the new $20 bill. WTF? Why would they need to promote something that people already want? I'm glad to see that my tax dollars are hard at work. Also, I don't see how changing the bill design would foil counterfeiters, since there's no reason not to counterfeit the older (and easier to copy) designs. Is there any "official" justification for changing the coin design (other than the year designation, which of course needs to be incremented each year).  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-05-2004 10:00 AM                        Replacing bills works since you won't see many of the older bills after a couple years since paper bills have a lifetime measured in months, not decades (like coins). A few years after the replacement, any significant amount of (old bill) counterfeits will be pretty suspicious. Promotion is necessary to point out the security features so people know what to look for and to make people aware that there is a new bill. Back when the $2 coin first came out, some lady who must have had her head in a hole in the ground refused to take my "fake coin". I guess they should have spent a little more on promotion.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-05-2004 02:33 PM                        I don't know what the need is for the new nickel. The quarters, however are a masterpiece of marketing. By the time this is done, there will be millions of dollars worth of quarters sitting in collections...pure profit for the gov't. In Montana, they're doing a similar thing with car license plates. For $4000, your nonprofit organization can design its own custom license plate. The state charges a $25 premium for the special plates, of which $20 goes back to the non-profit org. Result: There are now about 40 different Montana license plates some of which are quite beautiful.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-05-2004 03:22 PM                        The design of the new nickles is only temporary to commemorate the April 30, 1803 Louisiana Purchase and the 200th anniversary of the Lewis & Clark Expidition. From what I had read in news reports, the US mint will issue two coins with different designs. The face side will still feature the profile of Thomas Jefferson and the other side featuring his home will be replaced with two other images dipicting the purchase agreement and the expidition. Personally, I do not feel there is anything wrong for the government to issue commemorative coins from time to time. Like the current 50 state quarters, there have been other limited issue coins in the past. -Claude  |  IP: Logged William Leland III Master Film Handler Posts: 336 From: Charleston, SC, Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-05-2004 03:55 PM                        on Fark they have photoshop contest everytime a new quarter comes out, pretty funny stuff the farkers do.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-05-2004 08:06 PM                        A new nickel to commemorate the Louisiana purchase? What the hell? Was Louisiana purchased for only a nickle or something? If so, they got ripped off. Louisiana sucks! When they redesign money to commemorate me, it had better be a $500 bill or something!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-05-2004 09:21 PM                  Joe, they will NEVER make an idol in your image... I can think of a few people (FT users?) that should appear on the new $3 bill... Just my 2-cents... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Robb Johnston Expert Film Handler Posts: 147 From: St. Louis Suburbs Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-05-2004 09:36 PM                        Joe, Jefferson is on the face of the nickle. His administration oversaw both the Louisiana Purchase and the L&C expedition. so they are linking it to his image not the value. Good god why am I responding to a humor based post with a serious response  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-06-2004 10:48 AM                         |  IP: Logged Gunnar Johansson Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Gothenburg, Sweden Registered: Mar 2003 posted 03-06-2004 11:47 AM                        This has, as almost all the "phony" american fun.money I´ve seen, a very specific serialnumber. Not speaking the English language from birth, I remember when first being shown this combination (though at that time leaving out two numbers who look alike upside down) on a Van Halen album. I thought it was hilarious, still do, so much for growing up Then there was the other Van Halen record with the title: "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" which took some deciphering as well. Already as a kid I was in to codebreaking. As American money goes they somehow always seemed lacking in imagination. The same size and colour (bills) which would be hard for those who have trouble with their vision, but to each his own. I´ve had trouble with the danes tendency to have all money in coins. Terribly frustrating. Swedish National Bank for those who want to see Swedish money. Nothing new lately apart from updating the year and the kings receding hairline (Republic!! Any day now!! Or maybe not) //Gunnar  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-07-2004 02:57 PM                     What does sex have to do with marijuana? =TMP= P.S. I see you miss the political forum, too, Dave  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 03-07-2004 04:12 PM                        Is that supposed to be Bill Clinton on that $bill? If so, that is by far the worst drawing of him that I ever have seen.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-07-2004 10:00 PM                     A nickel is a nickel. 5 cents. Why do they want to screw with it? The old nickel works great! It still buys practically nothing. It is getting as worthless as a penny.  |  IP: Logged

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